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Helen Childress is a film and TV professional who wrote Reality Bites (1994) and co-produced Good Girls (2018). She was born in Texas in 1969 and has also acted in some projects.
- Producer, Writer, Actress
- October 19, 1969
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Mar 6, 2019 · Twenty-year-old Helen Childress’s insight was essential to the plot. In 1990, she was a student at the University of Southern California when a theatrical performance of one of her scripts ...
Helen Childress was born on 19 October 1969 in Tarrant County, Texas, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Reality Bites (1994), Good Girls (2018) and The Curiosity.
- October 19, 1969
Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film written by Helen Childress and directed by Ben Stiller in his feature directorial debut. It stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Stiller, with supporting roles by Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn.
- THE WRITER OF THE MOVIE NEVER WANTED TO BE A SCREENWRITER. In 1994, Reality Bites screenwriter Helen Childress told Entertainment Weekly that she had “no interest in screenwriting.
- BEN STILLER MADE SOME KEY CHANGES TO CHILDRESS’ SCRIPT. Stiller believed the script to be “extremely funny,” but tweaked it anyway. “Originally, it was much more about all the characters in the movie,” he said in an interview around the time of the film’s release.
- TRISTAR PICTURES CHANGED ITS MIND ABOUT MAKING THE MOVIE. In 1993, the studio also eventually said no to Pulp Fiction. Made for $11.5 million, Reality Bites would end up being released by Universal Pictures, after Stiller claimed they were “turned down by everybody” else because twentysomething coming-of-age movies such as Singles (1992) didn’t make enough money.
- WINONA RYDER ADVOCATED HARD FOR ETHAN HAWKE AND JANEANE GAROFALO. Winona Ryder had seen Ethan Hawke in the World War II drama A Midnight Clear (1992), and subsequently pushed for him to play Troy.
May 1, 2024 · The screenwriter, Helen Childress, was raised in Missouri City, just outside of Houston, and the movie has a real sense of place, of young people toiling in a big city that was rarely...
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Sep 14, 2023 · In this installment: screenwriter Helen Childress, who penned the 1994 cult favourite Reality Bites. With the writers’ strike currently raging in the US, we’ll be showing solidarity by focusing on screenwriters for the next weeks in the Unsung Auteurs column.
