The Reality Bites Soundtrack Turns 20: 9 Songs Still Worth Loving

“I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.” Twenty years ago today, the world was introduced to the existential struggle of Gen X-er Lelaina Pierce in Reality Bites. Played by Winona Ryder, Lelaina was a college valedictorian with dreams of becoming a documentarian, but trapped in a Sisyphean nightmare of trying to find a creative job with no experience in a bad economy. Stuck in stasis, she works as a production assistant for a lousy boss and hangs out with her best friend Vic...

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