Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion (DVD)

When Romy and Michelle decide to attend their high school reunion, they are gleeful at the thought of sharing their success story with their tormentors. In a lengthy segment of back story, we see flashbacks of the cool group playing mean tricks on them, and how Romy is in love with the group leader's boyfriend Billy. Ten years later though, Romy and Michelle are ready to go back and face the school bullies with tales of their exciting life in LA. However, the pair soon realise that living in LA simply isn't that impressive, with both in dead end jobs and living together watching Pretty Woman at night. So in order to impress, they claim to have ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room I steered away from this film for a long time because I got the impression that it would just be a vapid and silly film without any substance or endearing characters. Whilst it is daft and not great, it is quite fun and has a superb soundtrack to bounce your head to. Also, the performances do elevate it to a degree, and like Reese Witherspoon's Legally Blonde, it's actually a lot more clever and well written than you might reasonably expect. Michele Weinberger (Kudrow) and Romy White (Sorvino) are two not so clever women in their late twenties who are both single and work fairly soul ...  Read the complete review

Romy & Michele's High School reunion is a girly comedy film released 22nd August 1997. The film did reasonably well at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics. It runs for approximately 92 minutes and is rated 15. There was a prequel to the film released in 2005, the film didn't star either of the two leads, the starred Katherine Heigl, the film was panned by the critics. The film is directed by David Mirkin who's well known for his work on The Simpsons. He also directed the 2001 film Heartbreakers. The two leads of Romy & Michele are played by Mira Sorvino & Lisa Kudrow. Mira Sorvino plays Romy White. She's also starred ...  Read the complete review

Happily plodding along with her life, Romy is at her work as normal when an old classmate turns up at the counter to pick up her Jaguar after it was in getting repaired. From this chance encounter, Romy finds out that her high school is having a 10 year reunion for her class! This is big news for Romy and her roommate (and life long friend) Michelle so they set too filling out the forms to register their intent to attend. However, problems arise when they realise that all they have to show for 10 years is that Romy is a cashier, Michelle is unemployed and both of them are still single – surely they can’t go like that! So, they embark on a few plans ...  Read the complete review

Not quite sure if this was marketed as a Chick Flick, think it may have been, but my husband likes this film, so finally a film we can both watch together. This film is getting on a bit thesedays, as it came out in 1997, but I bought the dvd and although I don't watch it every week or that, I still bring it out from time to time to get a bit light hearted comedy. So what's the film about? I guess the title may give it away a bit. Romy and Michelle go to a high school reunion. Romy and Michelle have been friends since high school and they stuck together as they were a bit odd compared to the other kids. They now live together and just go through life having ...  Read the complete review