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...Stiller), an executive for the new cable network In Your Face TV--"it's like MTV, but with an edge"--is about to reveal to his fellow executives a video documentary made by aspiring young filmmaker Leleina (Winona Ryder). Leleina's documentary is about herself and her three friends Troy, Vicki, and Sammy, who all have just graduated from college and are now trying to make it in the real world. Leleina intends her video to be a serious consideration of the many issues which confront the twenty-somethings of today--you know: AIDS, homosexuality, McJobs, alternative music, cheesy television...
Conveniently, each of the main characters embodies at least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
Hawke, however, barely manages to make his character likable. Troy is supposed to represent the quintessential Generation X-er--an emotionally battered, yet keenly intelligent outsider who subsists on a steady diet of trash culture...
Nonetheless, the only evidence of Troy's intelligence is that he is always reading books with the word "being" in the title and that he knows the definition of "irony." The hippest pop culture reference he can muster is when Leleina doesn't want him to move into her apartment and he replies, "What, is Mr. Roper gonna show up?" Any character aspiring to be the defining figure of my generation should be held to a much more sophisticated standard of involvement with the "Three's Company" lexicon...
...film's final embarassing lunge at hipness comes when Troy's band performs an original song called "I'm Nothin,"' in which the opening lyrics are "I got a pothead momma/I got a cokehead dad" and it's downhill from there. Apparently, Hawke wrote this song himself and it is available on the soundtrack album...