Lelaina Pierce portrayed by Winona Ryder, graduated as the valedictorian of her college class. Pierce, recorded the life of her friends— Ethan Hawke as Troy Dyer, Janeane Garofalo as Vickie ...

Focusing on a group of twenty-somethings, the movie Reality Bites really ushered in Winona Ryder as an icon of Generation X. The writer, Helen Childress, was only 20 herself but had shopped around ...