Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Plot synopsis:
Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) are two friends living together in a beachfront apartment in Los Angeles, California. Romy works as a cashier in the service department of a Jaguar dealership; Michele is unemployed. They are both single and unambitious. Romy encounters former high school classmate, Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo), who informs Romy about their upcoming 10-year high school reunion back in Tucson, Arizona.
At first excited at the prospect of attending, Romy then has the realization that they will not be able to make a good impression at the reunion. Desperate to impress their former classmates, Romy and Michele make last-ditch attempts to improve themselves to avoid the bullying they endured, mostly at the hands of the "A-Group", led by cheerleader Christie Masters (Julia Campbell).
In a series of flashbacks from 1987, Romy and Michele's suffering is revealed; Christie attached magnets to Michele's back brace and once took a bite out of the burger Romy was eating. Christie humiliated them once again at the prom, telling Romy that her handsome jock boyfriend, Billy Christensen (Vincent Ventresca), was in love with Romy and has now broken up with Christie to be with her. Christie tells Romy to wait for a dance with Billy. Christie and Billy then ride away together, unbeknownst to Romy, who patiently waits all night long at the dance for Billy. In tears, Romy then dances with Michele in a depressed state.
Failing in their attempts to get jobs and boyfriends, Romy and Michele decide to simply pretend they have been much more successful by showing up in an expensive car and business suits. Romy obtains a nice car from the Jaguar dealership, and Michele makes their outfits.
On the way to the reunion after making the realization they had not thought of what kind of business women they were, they decide to claim that they invented Post-it notes, reasoning that their true origins are obscure. Romy wants to state it was her idea to invent Post-Its and Michele's main contribution was deciding they should be yellow, which Michele takes as an insult to her intelligence. This leads to a further argument about who's the cuter of the two. The argument results in their decision to go their separate ways once they reach their destination.
When they arrive, Michele hears Romy saying that she invented Post-its all by herself. Michele convinces the A-Group girls that she invented a special kind of glue, explaining the glue's complicated formula in great detail. Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming), the nerd who had a crush on Michele in high school, turns out to be incredibly wealthy and gorgeous and hits on Michele, while Billy and Romy reunite and hit it off. Both Romy and Michele win awards as the most successful members of their graduating class. Though still refusing to speak with each other, they look back at each other with longing.
Seventy years later, an elderly Michele learns that Romy is on her deathbed, so she calls her to make amends. However, they rehash the same argument. Romy dies, flipping her the bird, and they never get a chance to resolve their issues.
Michele wakes up alone in the car in the present day, disturbed by the previous dream sequence. At the reunion, Romy has begun to spread her story. Heather Mooney disrupts their lie by revealing the real name of the person who did in fact invent Post-It notes (something Heather learned in business school). The A-Group girls begin a vicious verbal attack on Romy. Michele ineptly defends her. Christie further humiliates the two in front of everyone by revealing Romy's lie; Romy runs out, with Michele chasing after her.
Michele then tells Romy that she genuinely thought that their lives were wonderful just the way they were, before Romy said that they were not good enough. Michele also says that they should not care what everyone else thinks. They change into fun, stylish outfits they've designed, and return to the reunion, determined to have some fun at any cost.
They confront Christie about her bullying. Romy says she no longer cares about Christie because Christie is just "a bad person with an ugly heart". Christie makes fun of their clothes; former classmate Lisa Luder (Elaine Hendrix), an ex-member of the A-Group who has since become a fashion editor for Vogue, sees things differently, and announces that the outfits are actually very well made and overall "not bad". Christie begins to attack Lisa, but Lisa coolly dismisses her in front of the crowd that has gathered to watch. The other A-Group girls defect and Christie is left by herself, while everyone else makes their way over to congratulate Romy and Michele. Heather apologizes to Romy and Michele and tells them that the two of them had actually made her unhappy in high school, for she had been in love with Sandy. Romy and Michele then make her feel better by saying that she too had the luxury of making someone miserable, referencing former classmate and reunion committee head Toby Walters (Camryn Manheim), to whom Heather was always cruel in high school.
Sandy Frink then arrives via helicopter, and turns out to be a billionaire who made his fortune from inventing a special shoe rubber. He goes over to talk to Romy and Michele. Michele tells Sandy that he must be the most successful person in their class; Sandy responds that despite all the wealth and success he has, the one thing he doesn't have is her, and asks her to dance with him. Michele agrees, so long as Romy can dance with them too.
After an interpretive dance to Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" that receives huge applause, Sandy escorts them to his helicopter.
Heather walks out, not interested in the new Sandy. While smoking, she encounters a mysterious classmate dressed as a cowboy (Justin Theroux). Heather remembers that in high school, he would often offer her a light by silently flicking lit cigarette butts at her. This time, Heather demands that he talk to her. The cowboy lights her cigarette with a lighter and apologizes for his previous behavior, stating that he had suffered from a speech impediment in high school.
Romy and Michele leave with Sandy. On their way out, they encounter Billy Christensen, who is now Christie's husband; he is now an alcoholic, with a dead end job, living a miserable life with Christie, and unsure if he's the father of her latest pregnancy. When he propositions Romy, she tells him to go up to his hotel room, get undressed, and wait for her. He excitedly shuffles off; Romy laughs, having finally settled the score with Billy. They board the helicopter and see Heather down below amongst some bushes, making out with the cowboy.
Six months later, back in L.A., Romy and Michele use money loaned to them by Sandy to open their own fashion boutique. Heather has stayed in touch and has become friends with the girls, shopping in their store (and finally getting an outfit that's not all black).

Tags: cult, revenge, comedy, flashback

Review:
ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997) ***1/2 Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming.Hysterically funny comedy about two best friends/roomies Sorvino and Kudrow (think female "Dumb and Dumber") facing their 10th high school reunion and, realizing their lives are not worth really bragging about, coming up with pseudo lives.
Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) live in Venice, California and love watching the film Pretty Woman.
I don't find Romy and Michele's High School Reunion to be as funny as some seem to—just consistently amusing—but I still like it: it has a warmth and charm that you don't find in many Hollywood films, a few profound points to make about life and true happiness, and two absolute babes with amazing legs—and sometimes, that's enough.The lovely Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from Friends) and the possibly even lovelier Mira Sorvino play lifelong pals Romy and Michele, a pair of ditzy blondes sharing an apartment in Los Angeles.
In the ten years since graduating high school, the girls have led a carefree existence together, avoiding responsibility during the day in minimum wage jobs, and partying at night.When they discover that their high school in Tuscon is holding a class reunion, Romy and Michele decide to attend, but on realising that their lack of accomplishment over the last decade is unlikely to impress, they concoct a story to make themselves appear successful.
Of course, the whole deception crashes around their ears, but through the experience, Romy and Michele discover that their lives have been much richer than they had realised.The comedy of Romy and Michele veers towards the extremely silly at times, and is unlikely to appeal to those who enjoy more cerebral humour, but the underlying, heartfelt messages, the effervescent performances from its likable (and luscious) leads, excellent support from Janeane Garofolo (as class grouch Heather Mooney) and Alan Cumming (as nerd-turned-millionaire Sandy Frink), and spirited direction from David Mirkin are guaranteed to provide a fun time for all but the most joyless of souls..
But from this simple lie their friendship is broken apart and are made the laughing stock at the reunion.Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a great little comedy of nostalgia; looking back upon school years, the fashion, the music and how people were back then; seeing that they've changed or just stayed completely the same.Overall this doesn't say much; there is that moral that friendship is the most important and to stand by your friends in any situation.
There is that idea also that when people look back upon school years people realise if they were liked or not; Christy and the A group finding they were the most hated and despised and that the 'freaks' of school go on to be the most successful.Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow fit their characters perfectly; giving so much energy and naivety to them.
Its one of the funniest films I've seen and is not only a great flashback of the 80s [Although not a damn patch on 13 GOING ON 30] but a hilarious bimbo movie, possibly the best if it weren't for 2004's MEAN GIRLS.This is an endearing, funny, mean, warm movie about the innocence of being a bimbo and its negatives and positives.
Lisa Kudrow is especially comfortable in this role thanks to Pheobe.It's not exactly high brow humour, but the laughers and great characters of the 97 set picture not only bring back memories of the 1990s now but it also lets us all know that we shouldn't accept the crap of todays Hollywood.
"Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" is all about Sorvino and Kudrow as a couple of best friend ditzes who have supported each through and since school and are confronted with their first high school ten year reunion.
Mira Sorvino is great as Romy White , as is Lisa Kudrow as the ditsy yet fun Michele, and Janeane Garfolo as the rude and moody Heather Moony.
They are perfect together at a point to believe that they are real intimate friends.It's one of the best and funniest movies I've ever seen for one simple reason: it's one of the best movies together with "Muriel's Wedding", "Welcome To Dollhouse", "Mean Girls" and some other ones to portray as a satire way what really happens to a lot of people's lives at Elementary and High School times.
In recent times many films have been made about the boring lives of American teenagers.If there is one film which has the ability to stand apart from a huge crowd of inane Hollywood teen pictures,it is surely Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.It is a perfect film which does not hesitate in attacking fake American values prevalent in high schools.It is a known fact that there is too much pressure on American high school children to succeed in all realms of life.There are many people who become a part of this system.There are some like Romy and Michelle who decide to follow their own paths.Hollywood director David Mirkin has directed a nice film about these two girls who do not take their lives seriously.It is through a great soundtrack that we are showed a not so rosy picture of the lives of disillusioned souls like Romy and Michelle.It is a nice film which teaches us that people can be happy with what they are.One has to remain true to oneself if one wants to be respected.Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino look fabulous as Romy and Michelle..
And the message is pretty clear: Happiness comes from within, not how successful people think you are.Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorveno excel as to Blonds who return to their high school reunion intent on making the "Popular People" stand up and take notice.
Alan Cummings bit part shows his true talent of being able to step into any role and fit in.The only place where the movie fails is too much time with Romy and Michelle in L.A., and not enough with them at the reunion, which if written correctly could have made this laugh out loud funny..
"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" is a movie that I've heard about for a long time, having seen the video stored at someone's house or whatnot.
The verdict is while there are some funny moments, and the ending is good, there are enough dead spots to only get it a lukewarm recommendation.Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are two best friends...and first class ditzes.
The movie is at it's best when it allows them to be the ultra-dim bulbs that they are, but there just aren't enough of these moments.Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are terrific as the leads.
-The Best: Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, the most talented writer who provided us one of the most pleasant comedy movies to sit along for 1 hour and half.
Almost all the cast is hilarious and there's also place for the villains' starring the most annoying of all Julia Campbell as Christie Masters, well I know that's her role and she needs to look mean and, all, but let's face it she is really annoying to the part.Get yourselves all together to this big party called   Romy and Michele's High School Reunion', seat back, enjoy and have fun, recalling all the greatest hits from the 80's which are a remarkable point to the very century's history and to the movie as well, no one will even forget the greatest leaving of Romy and Michelle via Helicopter with one of the greatest 80's songs behind.See it, it's absolutely worth watching 7/10.
Janeane Garofalo is hilarious as the chain-smoking, grumpy Heather and almost steals the screen in every scene she's in.The movie is full of witty one-liners and memorable characters, each with their own distinct personalities not to mention very well-written.With a fantastic 80's soundtrack (that will have the songs stuck in your head for days), Romy and Michele is a gem of a comedy movie that remains so, no matter how many times you watch!.
"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" does a great job  of showing what high school is really like, and that one day you to can get revenge on the mean girl that bullied you.
I could not stop laughing while I was watching this funny film!Romy and Michele are ditzy blondes who get invited to their 10 year high school reunion.
Oh my gosh Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)makes you just want to have a best friend like romy or michele!
David Mirkin (director) did a wonderful job casting Mira Sorvino (romy white) and lisa kudrow (michele weinberger).
The plot is pretty good, it's about Romy and Michele(as you probably guessed from the title), who, 10 years after high school haven't really gotten anywhere with their lives, and are told about a high school reunion.
Right from the very first moments I realised that I wasn't watching the predictable "Friends" type comedy but something far more surreal and enjoyable.The best aspect of the film is the way it uses a basic and very predictable storyline, the girls that were unpopular at school get their own back, and yet adds humour and style, along with some bizzare dream sequences to create an unpredictable journey with turns and twist a plenty.I would be lying if I said that it was a classic, but thanks to some good acting, sharp script and very well judged humour it manages to amuse time and time again.
I thought Dumb and Dumber was great fun, even if not all of the jokes hit home, but Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was almost tiresome to watch.
Mira Sorvino is too talented for this film and Lisa Kudrow is playing Phoebe from "Friends".
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is one of those pleasant movie-going experiences that doesn't offend, excite, or challenge anyone.
I also think this was Lisa Kudrow's best performance in all the movies she's ever done and was even more impressive than her ditsy Phoebe Buffay character on "FRIENDS".
Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) are dim-witted blonde best friends in L.A. Romy runs into her high school classmate Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo) who is now wealthy with news of the upcoming Sagebrush High School 10th year reunion in Tuscon.
I thought the two leads were both very good.It's nothing special and the characters and story aren't that "deep" but for what it is, a silly "desperate to impress people at a high school reunion" comedy, it's a lot of fun.
I just noticed the advertising slogan for this movie ("The blonde leading the blonde") and kind of wished that whoever came up with that witty one-liner might have hung around to help with the screenplay itself, but this is still a reasonably amusing chick-flick about two ditzy blondes working dead-end jobs in L.A. who decide to crash their old Tucson high- school tenth anniversary reunion and make a point to the three bitchy seniors who picked on them during their time there.That folks is the sum of the plot as our female Wayne and Garth set out on a road-trip in a fancy borrowed car to Tucson, improbably power-dressed as the company executives who invented "post-its" where they predictably crash and burn, even falling out with each other in the process, before assisted by the intervention of two of their even weirder former-classmates, right all the past wrongs done against them and of course come out on top, friendship and status intact, indeed enhanced.Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are both equally likable as the blonde and blonder leads, stupid but sassy with it.
This movie is fun to watch, especially if you have a high school best friend that can be paired with these two's tandem.Rate 8/10.
Way More Fun Than It Shoud Be. Two women (Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sovino) get into a lot of trouble when they go to their high school reunion and lie about their lives after twelfth grade.This film is a win.
This film is great for teenagers especially girls, as they will enjoy the banter between all of the characters but also understand what Romy and Michele are going through and also understand how popular people are really just mean people and how horrible they can be.
This film is also great because of the moral it has in it, and that is " It doesn't matter if you are a nerd in high school, because in the end you are going to come out on top" and that is what this movie represents.
Lisa Kudrow is as funny as ever -- perfect casting.A wonderfully silly little film with an important message - "Success comes from within, and who cares about the past "SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE" in our collective lives !" A local DISH "encapsulation" of this movie had the NERVE to call their characters "two pinheads who go to their high school reunion".
ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION is one of those movies that isn't necessarily terrific, but very lovable nonetheless.
It's the story of Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow), best friends living in LA who get news of their ten-year high school reunion going on in Tucson.
Also mentionable is Camryn Manheim as Toby Walters, and all of the actresses playing the "A-group."ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION isn't the best comedy you can find out there.
Lisa Kudrow (Michele Weinberger) and Mira Sorvino (Romy White) are the perfect fit the the character parts portrayed in this movie.
romy and michele,s high school reunion is very funny the dresses what they make r so cool mira sorvino and lisa kudrow were made for that part and janeane garofalo is so funny 2 and the A group they were realy good acting like bitches and the cowboy was realy hot!.
Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Lisa Kudrow from TV's 'Friends', star in this blonde comedy, directed by David Mirkin.It's been ten years since Romy White (Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Kudrow) completed high school at fictional (?) Sagebrush High in Tuscon.
Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow give great comic performances, and their dance sequence with Alan Cumming always makes me laugh so hard I cry--then I rewind and do it again!.
She how junior high looks when it's interpreted through high school!!!It's a riot!Then grow up--keep your best friend--have changed practically not-at-all, then meet those people again, who oddly enough haven't changed either!Then learn a lesson, and GROOoooww, like little flowers in a garden...hmmmmAdd instantaneous perfect random choreography--and WOW--you got my favorite comedy movie of all time:ROMY AND MICHELLE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION!!!.
High school outsiders as comedy material has been pretty well done to death, so I was a little sceptical when I saw this rated **** by our TV guide critic, but I have been very impressed with Mira Sorvino in other movies so why not.
Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino bring this funny script and make it their movie.
It is full of great one-liners, it moves at a brisk pace (in fact so brisk that when it ends you definitely wish that it would last a little longer) and Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are dead-on in their portrayals of these two girls whom all of us would easily recognize from our own high school years.
I love Romy and Michele because they are everything my former best friend and I were in high school.
Ten years out of high school in Arizona, and Romy and Michele the best friend heroines are living in Southern California.
Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) play a couple of dumb blondes who were losers in high school and sees their 10-year reunion as an opportunity to make up success stories and get back at the popular and snobby Christy Masters and her friends.I loved the flashbacks, especially the one at the prom where they were both wearing Madonna outfits.
This movie follows Romey (Miro Sorvino) and Michelle (Lisa Kudrow) who are best friends since high school, and they are going to their high school reunion, and they want to impress the class and the movie shows the funny things that happened to them in high school and now; it's worth the money and time, rent it - you'll see!.
So ditzy and whacko - love the flashbacks, the dream sequence and the sweet revenge Romy and Michele exact on Christy Masters and her snob squad...If ever you've been picked on in high school (and let's face it, who hasn't unless you're on Christy's side), this is the greatest movie to watch with the loose moral underneath about "being yourself" and "friends over popularity".
What really gets me is the people who love this movie, but don't know what it's like to be in Romy and Michele's shoes.
Romy and Michele is a great movie, because of the silly comedy and the great acting by Kudrow and Sorvino.
Now almost 1yr after I originally bought and watched it, I can be sure that it definitely is one of my favourite comedies of all time, joint only with 1998's "There's something about Mary" that was absolutely hilarious.The performances were first rate all round, Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow and Janeane Garofalo were superb.
There are several reasons I think this movie is great, but the biggest ones are the performances of Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow as Romy White and Michele Weinberger, two lovable airheads and best friends from Los Angeles who decide to attend their ten-year reunion in Tucson, Arizona.
"Romy and Michele" gets funnier everytime I watch it.Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow make a great comedy team.
Romy and Michele´s High School Reunion is one of the best films I ever have seen .
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion is one of my favorite movies!