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10/19/1969
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Young scripwriter, whose debut, Ben Stiller's "Reality Bites" (1994), ostensibly summarized her generation. The film featured the fetching Winona Ryder and the dour Ethan Hawke and boasted plenty of zingers, yearnings, media watches and emotional pulse-taking. Going in and out of self-consciousness, "Reality Bites" was Childress' "cri de coeur" and had many film critics in their mid-40s dizzy with the need to differentiate their generation from hers....
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Filmography
A Way of Life Like Any Other
- ( Screenplay
/
/ Announced /
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Alison's Starting to Happen
- ( Screenplay
/
/ Announced /
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Network Divas
- ( Screenplay
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/ Announced /
)
Reality Bites
- ( Screenplay
/ 1994
/ Released /
)
Reality Bites
- ( Waitress
/ 1994
/ Released /
)
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Young scripwriter, whose debut, Ben Stiller's "Reality Bites" (1994), ostensibly summarized her generation. The film featured the fetching Winona Ryder and the dour Ethan Hawke and boasted plenty of zingers, yearnings, media watches and emotional pulse-taking. Going in and out of self-consciousness, "Reality Bites" was Childress' "cri de coeur" and had many film critics in their mid-40s dizzy with the need to differentiate their generation from hers.
Profession(s):
screenwriter, theater box office taker
Sometimes Credited As:
Helen Anne Childress
Family
husband:Carlos Brooks
Education
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California film writing
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1994 Screenwriting debut at age 23, "Reality Bites"
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