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Reality Bites, the Glossary

Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and directed by Ben Stiller in his feature directorial debut.^[1]

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1994 romantic comedy-drama films
Films directed by Ben Stiller
Films produced by Danny DeVito

Add It Up

"Add It Up" is a song by American rock band Violent Femmes, released on their 1983 debut album Violent Femmes.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Passions is a list of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema.

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All I Want Is You (U2 song)

"All I Want Is You" is a song by Irish rock band U2.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Andy Dick

Andrew Roane Dick (born Andrew Thomlinson; December 21, 1965) is an American actor and comedian.

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Anne Heche

Anne Celeste Heche (May 25, 1969August 11, 2022) was an American actress, known for her roles across a variety of genres in film, television, and theater.

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Anne Meara

Anne Meara (September 20, 1929 – May 23, 2015) was an American comedian and actress.

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Arrested Development (group)

Arrested Development is an American hip hop group, that was formed in Atlanta in 1988.

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The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. The distribution of the following The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and USA TODAY international and national news, but also incorporates strong Central Texas coverage, especially in political reporting.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Baby, I Love Your Way

"Baby, I Love Your Way" is a song written and performed by English singer Peter Frampton, released as a single in September 1975.

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Barry Del Sherman

Barry Del Sherman (born November 10, 1962) is an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian.

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Big Mountain (band)

Big Mountain is an American reggae band formed in 1986 at San Diego, California by vocalist Joaquin "Quino" McWhinney.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

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Convertible

A convertible or cabriolet is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place.

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Crowded House

Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1985.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Dave Pirner

David Anthony Pirner (born April 16, 1964) is an American songwriter, singer, and producer best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.

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David Spade

David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984.

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Early 1990s recession in the United States

The United States entered a recession in 1990, which lasted 8 months through March 1991.

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Emmanuel Lubezki

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern (born November 30, 1964) is a Mexican cinematographer.

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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director.

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Evan Dando

Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads.

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Gap Inc.

The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap (stylized as GAP), is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.

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Generation X

Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman.

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, Inc. (often referred to simply as Hearst and formerly known as Hearst Corporation) is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.

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House of Style

House of Style is an MTV show that premiered in May 1989, focusing on America's growing fascination with the "supermodel" craze.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report.

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Jeanne Tripplehorn

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American actress.

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Jenna Bans

Jenna Bans is an American screenwriter.

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Joe Don Baker

Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is a retired American actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law.

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John F. O'Donohue

John F. O'Donohue (born August 6, 1959) is an American actor and former police officer who played Sgt.

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John Mahoney

Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-American actor.

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Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads.

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Karen Duffy

Karen "Duff" Duffy (born May 23, 1962) is an American writer, model, television personality, and actress.

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Karl Wallinger

Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (19 October 1957 – 10 March 2024) was a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Karyn Rachtman

Karyn Rachtman (born February 19, 1964) is an American music supervisor and film producer.

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Keith David

Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor.

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Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.

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Lisa Loeb

Lisa Anne Loeb (born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress.

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Lisa Zeno Churgin

Lisa Rachel Zeno Churgin (born January 20, 1955) is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules (directed by Lasse Hallström).

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List of Saturday Night Live cast members

, the late-night live variety series Saturday Night Live (SNL) has featured 164 cast members.

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Location scouting

Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography.

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Locked Out (Crowded House song)

"Locked Out" is a song by rock group Crowded House from their fourth studio album, Together Alone (1993).

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Me Phi Me

Me Phi Me (born La-Ron K. Wilburn, December 8, 1970) is an American rapper from Flint, Michigan.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael MacCambridge

Michael MacCambridge (born June 21, 1963) is an American author, journalist and TV commentator.

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Michael Shamberg

Michael Shamberg (born May 4, 1945) is an American film producer and former Time–Life correspondent.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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My Sharona

"My Sharona" is the debut single by the Knack.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.

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One-night stand

A one-night stand or one-night sex is a single sexual encounter in which there is no expectation that there shall be any further relations between the sexual participants.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States.

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Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Parker Posey

Parker Christian Posey (born November 8, 1968) is an American actress.

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Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by Peacock TV LLC, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal Media Group.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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Renée Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) is an American actress.

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Richard Schickel

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic.

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Romance film

Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Schoolhouse Rock!

Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, music videos) which aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network ABC.

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Screen International

Screen International is a British film magazine covering the international film business.

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Singles (1992 film)

Singles is a 1992 American romantic comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon.

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Social Distortion is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California.

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Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum is an American rock band formed in 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

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Squeeze (band)

Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s.

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Stacey Sher

Stacey Sher (born November 30, 1962) is an American film producer.

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Stay (I Missed You)

"Stay (I Missed You)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb.

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Steve Zahn

Steven James Zahn (born November 13, 1967) is an American actor.

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Strategic lawsuit against public participation

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Swoosie Kurtz

Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress.

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Tempted (Squeeze song)

"Tempted" is a song by the British rock band Squeeze.

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Test screening

A test screening, or test audience, is a preview screening of a film or television series before its general release to gauge audience reaction.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Archive of the Moving Image

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is an independent 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2002 by film archivist and University of Texas at Austin professor Caroline Frick, PhD.

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The Ben Stiller Show

The Ben Stiller Show is an American sketch comedy series starring Ben Stiller that aired in two iterations, the first series airing six episodes on MTV in 1990, and the second series airing 12 episodes on Fox from September 27, 1992, to January 17, 1993, with a 13th episode airing in 1995 on Comedy Central.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The House of the Spirits (film)

The House of the Spirits (Danish: Åndernes hus) is a 1993 period drama film directed by Bille August and starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave.

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The Knack

The Knack was an American rock band based in Los Angeles that rose to fame with its first single, "My Sharona", an international number-one hit in 1979.

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The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma, United States, and is the only regional daily that covers the Greater Oklahoma City area.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer, often referred to simply as The Inquirer, is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Posies

The Posies were an American power pop group.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868.

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The Trammps

The Trammps are an American disco and soul band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991) is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Turnaround (filmmaking)

Turnaround in filmmaking is the use of outside assistance to resolve problems preventing a film project from completing its development phase and entering the preproduction phase.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Bites

Also known as Reality Bites (film), Reality Bites (soundtrack), Spinning Around Over You, Turnip Farm.

, John Mahoney, Juliana Hatfield, Karen Duffy, Karl Wallinger, Karyn Rachtman, Keith David, Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Loeb, Lisa Zeno Churgin, List of Saturday Night Live cast members, Location scouting, Locked Out (Crowded House song), Los Angeles, Me Phi Me, Metacritic, Michael MacCambridge, Michael Shamberg, MTV, My Sharona, New Order (band), One-night stand, Orlando Sentinel, Ottawa Citizen, Parker Posey, Peacock (streaming service), Popular culture, Principal photography, RCA, Renée Zellweger, Richard Schickel, Romance film, Rotten Tomatoes, Schoolhouse Rock!, Screen International, Singles (1992 film), Social Distortion, Soul Asylum, Soundtrack, Squeeze (band), Stacey Sher, Stay (I Missed You), Steve Zahn, Strategic lawsuit against public participation, Sundance Film Festival, Swoosie Kurtz, Tempted (Squeeze song), Test screening, Texas, Texas Archive of the Moving Image, The Ben Stiller Show, The Hollywood Reporter, The House of the Spirits (film), The Knack, The Lemonheads, The New York Times, The Oklahoman, The Onion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Posies, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Trammps, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), TriStar Pictures, Turnaround (filmmaking), U2, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios, Inc., Videography, Violent Femmes, Wienerschnitzel, Winona Ryder, World Party, 1992 United States presidential election.

Reality Bites, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

1994 romantic comedy-drama films

Films directed by Ben Stiller

Films produced by Danny DeVito

References