The boyfriend situation doesn’t work out, Michele doesn’t have the best salesperson skills, and the gym isn’t doing anything for them either (but they do look cute!) First, they need cute boyfriends, Michele needs a great job in fashion, and they both decide they’d better hit the gym. They decide to attend but only by making it worthwhile. Michele touchingly offers to dance with her broken-hearted best friend (to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”), and they debate whether this ten-year reunion is worth going to or not. The two 28-year-olds remember the horrible senior prom they attended (dressed like Madonna) and how Christie pulled a prank on Romy which broke her heart out there on the dance floor. In high school everybody seems to like somebody, but that somebody usually always likes someone else and that someone else makes life hell for them.
Much to the detriment of Heather who’s secretly in love with Sandy. Sandy is so enraptured by her he has to use a binder to hide his, uh, excitement whenever she’s around.
Romy may not have had an admirer, but Michele did, and his name was Sandy Frink. Christie liked to embarrass Romy and Michele every chance she gets while the others look and laugh on. Romy was madly in love with Christie’s fit boyfriend Billy (Vincent Ventresca) who basically ignored her all the time. In fact, they were picked on repeatedly by the leader of the A-group led by popular girl Christie Masters (Julia Campbell) and her friends Kelly (Kristin Bauer) and Lisa (Elaine Hendrix). Later, Romy and Michele do some reminiscing where they remember not being the most popular people at the time. One day at her work as a desk clerk of a Jaguar dealership, Romy comes across Heather Mooney (Garofalo), an old high school acquaintance who asks about the upcoming reunion which Romy has no idea about. And when they go clubbing they make darn sure they look tremendously cute while doing it. They also go clubbing-almost every night. Well, watching movies in bed on gorgeous sunny days is not all they do. The viewer gets the impression that this is what these two women do most of the time–watch sappy movies and eat candy in bed while the gorgeous beach is literally outside their front door. They make fun of the way the snooty Beverly Hills saleslady won’t let poor Vivian shop and snark at the “sad, sad music” (all due respect to James Newton Howard). As this movie takes place in 1997, Pretty Woman was only seven years old so that’s not a long time to watch a movie 30 times. Inside we see Romy White and Michele Weinberger lying in bed, covers half over them, eating candy and watching Pretty Woman for the 30th time. The camera soars over a beach filled with swimmers, sunbathers, volleyball players and then, closes into a small apartment building window, literally 15 feet from the beach. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion opens with a long tracking shot which begins over a clear blue ocean on a gorgeous hot spring day. With Sorvino playing Romy and David Mirkin, a prolific TV comedy writer with shows such as Three’s Company, Taxi and The Simpsons as his credits tasked with directing, the movie was a go.
It took the better part of the first half of the 90s to get the project going at a studio with Kudrow and Janeane Garofalo attached.
Originally minor characters in the play, Schiff made them the leads in the script for Romy and Michele (Kudrow was in the original play). The characters Romy and Michele made their first appearance in Ladies Room, a late 80s play by Robin Schiff. The movie is a winsome, sparkling, gut-buster featuring two of Hollywood’s most effervescent actresses-Mira Sorvino fresh off her Oscar-winning turn in Mighty Aphrodite and Lisa Kudrow, then star of the mega-hit NBC series Friends. It’s the story of two 28-year-old best friends who travel from Miami to Tucson for their ten-year high school reunion so they can impress the twits who were mean to them back in school. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is arguably one of the best comedies of the late 90s. Wrong), but the audience was obviously there for smart, funny and wonderful female comedies. Some did well ( The First Wives Club), and some did not ( Mr. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to green-light more female-led comedy features. When Clueless arrived in theatres in the summer of 1995, it charmed audiences and made an instant star of Alicia Silverstone.