It is the quintessential early 90s movie. I may have only been a kid when this movie came out, but I grew up around Gen Xers thanks to my sister and I will always relate more to them than my own generation. The feel, themes, characters and soundtrack to this movie sum up the early 90s perfectly, just as The Spice Girls are the mascots for the late 90s.
Troy Dyer. If Reality Bites is the quintessential Gen X movie then Troy Dyer is the posterboy for Grunge. He "lives off creeds and mottos", can't hold a job, is a philosopher and musician and finds the 9-5 world a depressing place. He is still relevant to how so many graduates feel today, 15 years on.
Lainey. Oh Lainey, there's a bit of you in all of us. So ambitious and intelligent, yet life doesn't meet your expectations. How could I have known when I loved this movie at 10, that at 23 I would be going through the same things she did? "All you have to be at the age of 23 is yourself."
My Sharona. God. This scene. It is perfect in its pointless, happy, stoned, careless way. A generation of young adults went to 7/11s and danced to My Sharona after this scene. When I die, I don't want there to be a montage of photos of me. I want there to be a montage of awesome movie scenes and this would be front and centre.
