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10 Things We Learned from Reality Bites

Twenty years later, the ode to Generation X bursts with flavor.

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Christina Salgado and Amanda Koellner
January 29, 2014 | 12:16pm ET

    If adulthood came with a manual, we’d know that all of life’s problems can be solved with five bucks and a conversation – and maybe Frampton Comes Alive. At least, according to 1994’s Generation X classic Reality Bites. Maligned as a self-indulgent rallying cry for the slacker generation, the romantic comedy captured an entire generation’s crippling anxiety ushered in by adulthood. And if there’s anything we can glean from the film, it’s that the general uncertainty accompanying life doesn’t stop after your twenties. With that in mind, we put together a list of the most enduring lessons the movie gave us in light of the blockbuster soundtrack’s 20th anniversary.

    –-Christina Salgado
    Staff Writer

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