Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

Two women get into a lot of trouble when they go to their high school reunion and lie about their lives after twelfth grade.

• Director:Félix Enríquez Alcalá
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:92 minutes

Cast

Mira Sorvino : Romy White
Lisa Kudrow : Michele Weinberger
Janeane Garofalo: Heather Mooney
Alan Cumming : Sandy Frink
Julia Campbell : Christy Masters

Michele Weinberger (Kudrow) and Romy White (Sorvino) are two airheaded 28-year-old friends living together in Los Angeles, California. They are both single. When the story begins, Romy works as a cashier in a Jaguar car dealership; Michele is unemployed. They live a life of partying and fun and don’t take life too seriously. After 10 years of this laid-back lifestyle, Romy encounters former high school classmate Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo) at the Jaguar dealer, who informs them of their 10-year high school reunion in their hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Desperate to make good impressions, Romy and Michele make last-ditch attempts to get boyfriends, get better jobs, and lose weight. This is interspersed with clips showing the social torture they endured during their high school days, mostly at the hands of the “A-group,” led by cheerleader Christie Masters (Julia Campbell). The torture comes to a head at the end of their high school prom, where Christie’s jock boyfriend, Billy Christiansen (Vincent Ventresca), tells Romy that he’ll dance with her, if she’ll just wait for a few minutes. In reality, he and Christie ride off on his motorbike, leaving Romy waiting tearfully all night long.

Failing in their attempts to get jobs and boyfriends, Romy and Michele decide to pretend to be successful by showing up in an expensive car and business suits. Michele would make the suits while Romy would get the car, but in order to do that; she had to do something for her perverted sex-crazed workmate Ramon – so she pretends to have sex with him and climaxes so he will impress his friends, and he gives her the car. Coming up with what they think is a highly impressive story, they decide to claim that they are very successful businesswomen who invented Post-it notes. However, during their drive, they get into an argument about who is cuter (by comparing themselves with Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern) and who would be clever enough to think of the idea of Post-it notes, and their friendship dissolves. Read more

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