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Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), French, Dubbed
The laughs begin in Romy & Michele's High School Reunion when two best friends and party girls, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow), decide to reinvent themselves to impress former classmates at their 10-year high school reunion. Abandoning their wild wardrobes for power business suits, the women head off to the reunion, recounting tales of success and massive wealth. When their true story is revealed by a former classmate (Janeane Garofalo), Romy and Michele revert to their old selves and wind up getting the last laugh!
DVD Features:
Dolby Digital 5.1
French Language Track
stereo
Theatrical Trailer
Production Featurette
Chapter Search
1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
"Two thumbs up!" Siskel & Ebert
"Hilarious!" NBC-TV, New York
Editor's Note
A pair of none-too-bright best girl friends, ashamed to go to their ten-year high school reunion with nothing to show for the past decade, decide to exorcise their teenage demons by showing up at the bash and pretending they've come a long way, baby. While their ruse holds up against the former jocks and cheerleaders, a spiteful loser from their past is determined to ferret out the truth.
| Features | French Dolby Stereo | | Widescreen Version | | Theatrical Trailer | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 1/25/2005 |
| Running Time: 92 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 1737803 | | UPC: 00717951002822 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (1998) | | | Alan Cumming, Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Nominee, Best Dance Sequence | |
Golden Satellite Award (1998) | | | Lisa Kudrow, Nominee, Best Actress In A Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Breathless pace and cartoonish camerawork....A cute piece of bubblegum self-reflexivity....A cross between CLUELESS and MURIEL'S WEDDING..." 09/01/1997 p.54-5USA Today
"...Janeane Garofalo, always a welcome sullen sight, tickles as the tortured class wit..." 04/25/1997 p.4D New York Times
"...Cheerful, giddy fun....Ms. Kudrow and Ms. Sorvino make a fine team, elevating bubble-headedness to new levels of comic ingenuity..." 04/25/1997 p.C5 Entertainment Weekly
"...[Garofalo] is characteristically blackly funny....There are so many good ideas packed into ROMY AND MICHELLE..." 05/02/1997 p.42-4 Los Angeles Times
"...There's a jaunty spirit to every element in the film..." 04/25/1997 p.F4 Chicago Sun-Times
"...One of the brightest and goofiest comedies in a while..." 04/25/1997 p.31 Boxoffice Magazine 0 of 10
Buena Vista's second high school reunion film in as many weeks, Romy and Michele is just as charming and quirky as Grosse Pointe Blank, with a lighter yet equally witty script. Fun and funny are the adjectives that characterize the mood of the film, with hilariously winsome performances by Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow as the titular dimwit duet. Sorvino's talent for amusingly odd vocal inflections (which helped get her that Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite) is key to Romy's Valley Girl appeal; Kudrow's Michele may be Friends' Phoebe redux, but it works well in this tale of two nonconformist but slackerly misfits who fabricate glamorous lives to impress their former high school nemeses... Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is replete with audiovisual delights; with our heroines' outrageous fashion sense and a soundtrack jam-packed with '80s hits, the film captures much of the glamor and glitter indigenous to Me Generation-era offspring. Yet, in addition to bubbly baubles, there are some real gems in the script, and in the performances as well. (Particularly inspired is an unrehearsed yet astonishingly well-choreographed interpretive dance a trois of Cyndi Lauper's soppy ballad "Time After Time.") With clever flashbacks and wacky dream sequences, there's never a lag in the humor or the pace. True, some of the comeuppances of the snobby former "A-group" are pretty predictable, but our perky protagonists win cheers for standing up for themselves with panache aplenty. If the film wants anything, it's probably more allusions to the last decade to sate the nostalgia of the target audience; more investigation into how everyone else's lives turned out; and more inventiveness regarding payback and karma. Even so, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a buoyant good time in its warmly riotous celebration of individuality and friendship. - Christine James
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