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On the other hand, it was around the same time that the industry realized Sorvino would not be a huge movie star, Grossing $29 million in spring theatrical release, the film proved to be an admirable springboard to Kudrow's film career, which has nonetheless never approached the significance of her long-running 'Friends' work. It basically is, as long as you have a generous definition of 'fun' and are not genuinely hurt by poor structure, stupid jokes, or paper-thin storytelling.

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Another classmate, the ever-bitter loner Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo), also comes around and finds love with a once quiet bad boy (Justin Theroux).Ī perky, upbeat comedy full of '80s music and essentially transplanting one of '90s television's funnier characters is not easy for me to dislike and I can appreciate if you classify Romy and Michele as harmless fun. The heroines' redemption is a most hollow one: the shy kid with a crush on Michele has developed into a genuinely rich and successful inventor (Alan Cumming), who opts to dance with both ladies in a random bit of performance art that supposedly produces envy. It ultimately doesn't profoundly differ from the real reunion, which finds the in crowd women still high, mighty, and full of themselves and Romy and Michele still trying desperately to win approval. The middle of the movie serves up a bizarre 13-minute dream sequence. The type of tame R-rated comedy that no longer exists, Romy and Michele fails at a fundamental level because it is no smarter than the ditzy characters it wants us to laugh at.

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Unfortunately, it is pretty underwhelming in execution, courtesy of the directing debut of seasoned TV writer David Mirkin ('Three's Company', 'Newhart', 'Get a Life', and 'The Simpsons'). The premise is sturdy, offering excuses for already welcome 1980s nostalgia musically as well as effortlessly motivating adult characters to take stock of their life. Schiff's second theatrical screenwriting credit, Romy and Michele put Kudrow front and center, replacing unknown quantity Mellor with then-recent Academy Award winner Sorvino. So too had 'Just Temporary', Schiff's unsold 1989 sitcom pilot. That play, set in a Mexican restaurant's restroom, had cast Kudrow and Christie Mellor as single Valley girls.

The actress had comic spaciness down pat and this project had her virtually reprising a role she held on stage in Robin Schiff's 1988 Los Angeles play Ladies' Room. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion seemed like a fitting vehicle in which Lisa Kudrow could cross over into film. Their response is to embrace their true selves and have the night of their lives. The two 28-year-olds fall back into their old roles as class laughingstock.

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They think that some newly-purchased professional attire will dupe their old tormentors into believing they are rich and successful businesswomen.

When it becomes clear that they won't be able to do any of that in time for the event, they decide to simply lie and pose as the inventor and designer, respectively, of Post-It Notes. The reunion presents an opportunity for Romy and Michele to get their lives back on track: they plan to get jobs, get boyfriends, and lose weight. A ludicrous flashback shows that the two pals went to prom by themselves and were outcast by the popular 'A-group' kids. Though they did not receive invitations, Romy and Michele decide to attend, getting a chance to return to their hometown of Tucson, Arizona and shine as they did not in high school. An encounter with an old classmate reminds them that Sagebrush High's Class of 1987 is about to celebrate its ten-year reunion. Michele is unemployed, while Romy is a cashier at a valet car service. The two Los Angeles women have been out of high school for ten years without their lives taking off as they imagined. Kudrow plays Michele Weinberger, the roommate and longtime best friend of Romy White (Mira Sorvino). Lisa Kudrow, a 5-year veteran of television and film prior to her big break, got into the act with Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, a 1997 comedy that cast her as a ditsy blonde airhead not far from her signature role of Phoebe Buffay. The hot young actors headlined such films as Scream (Courteney Cox), Ed (Matt LeBlanc), Fools Rush In (Matthew Perry), The Pallbearer (David Schwimmer), and Picture Perfect (Jennifer Aniston). Within three seasons, the six stars of NBC's hit sitcom 'Friends' had all launched movie careers on the side.

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