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“A sweet, kooky paean to female friendship, deranged fashion choices, high-school trauma, and the genesis of Post-its” – Rachel Handler, Vulture
“★★★ – “it has charm, a sly intelligence” – Roger Ebert
With a star-studded cast, iconic fashion, and too many quotable moments to count, this fun-loving, absurdist cult classic has come to define the femme buddy comedy.
When best friends and roommates Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) receive word of their 10-year high school reunion, they reflect on their decade-plus long friendship and all of the awkward stories of their youth. Doubting their ability to impress old classmates, the duo decides to overhaul their image and present as an established pair of business women with an ill-thought-out and truly hilarious success story.
Rachel Handler’s Vulture profile of Sorvino put it best, “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion boldly went where very few 1990s studio comedies had gone before: allowing a pair of women to be just as endearingly idiotic as the scores of male duos that came before them.” The pair’s loyalty to each other and their unapologetic love of fashion and all things feminine has made this film a feminist classic worth returning to that’s only now receiving the attention it deserves.
David Mirkin, U.S.A., 1997, 92 minutes
Festivals, Awards, & Nominations
Nominee – Best Dance Sequence, MTV Movie + TV Awards 1998
Nominee – Best Actress, Satellite Awards 1998
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