A lot has changed between the generations, but Reality Bites asks a question that anyone, of any age, will find familiar: what happens when the life you were promised isn't the life you got?

In a picture full of painful moments, it's hard to decide on the lowest point.

Written with verve and played with grace, Reality Bites is too smart to pass itself off as a definitive statement, but it gets the details delightfully right.

...a pleasant, easy-to-watch movie, but one which will speak most strongly to those nostalgic for a past that never really existed....