Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Page #6

Synopsis: Romy and Michele have been through it all, including being tortured by the Popular crowd when in high school. When they receive word of a 10 year reunion, they come to realize their lives aren't as impressive as they'd like them to be. Instead of staying home they go to the reunion with business outfits, cell phones, and one heck of a bogus success story.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): David Mirkin
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1997
92 min
2,201 Views


Flashback to warm nights

Almost left behind

- Suitcase of memories|- You know, maybe he's, like, passed out in the bathroom.

- You want me to go check?|- Time after, Sometimes

- You picture me|- He's not in the bathroom, Michele.

I'm walkin' too far ahead

- I'll dance with you, Romy.|- You're callin' to me

- I can't hear what|you've said - Okay. - Okay.

Then you say "Go slow"

I fall behind

The second hand unwinds

If you're lost you can look|and you will find me

Time after time

If you fall, I will catch you|I'll be waiting

Time after time

If you're lost, you can look|and you will find me

Time after time

- If you fall, I will catch you I'll be waiting|- I will be waiting

Time after time

Time after time

We just waited and waited.

- God, I was such an idiot.|- But wait till he sees you now.

You are so much cuter|than you were in high school.

- I guess I'm cuter.|- Yeah!

And look at the way we live.|I mean, just our lifestyle.

You know, I mean, we live in L.A,|and they are still stuck in Tucson.

You know what, Michele?|You're right.

We are gonna go back there|and blow them away.

Boy, there's a lot of questions to|answer. Why do we have to fill these out?

They wanna know what we've been|doing for the past ten years.

- Oh!|- Okay. Here we go.

- Ahh!|- "Name. "

- Ah! We're having so much fun already.|- Oh, I know!

- I cannot wait for this reunion.|- Me too!

"Occupation. "|Cashier.

- Unemployed.|- No. Don't write that.

Um, okay, so your last job|was as a salesgirl?

- So say you're a freelance fashion consultant.|- Ooh! Clever.

"Relationship Status. "|Married.

- Nope. -|Engaged? - No.

- Living with someone?|- Should I say you?

- I guess so.|- Okay.

- You know, Michele?|- Yeah?

- Now that I'm looking at this...|- Uh-huh?

our lives don't seem as|impressive as I thought.

- They don't?|- Well, do you think it's impressive...

that we're still single, and we've|been living together for ten years...

and I'm a cashier|and you're unemployed?

Well, not super impressive.

Well, then, what's the point of going|if we're not going to impress people?

Well- Uh.

Romy, I still really,|really, really want to go.

- I know. Me too.|- Well then, can't we just, like, think of something?

- Okay. Well, the reunion is still like two weeks away, right?|- Right.

And all we really need is maybe some,|like, better jobs and boyfriends. Right?

Yeah!

But, okay. If those things were so easy|to get, wouldn't we already have them?

Well, I mean, we never|really tried before.

I mean, we never really had a good enough|reason, like going to a reunion, to motivate us.

That's true.

Okay. So we're just gonna have to make|ourselves more impressive, that's all.

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Robin Schiff

Robin Schiff is a Hollywood writer-producer, best known for the movie Romy and Michele's High School Reunion starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino. Schiff was a member of the comedy troupe The Groundlings. She does an interview series once a year for the Writers Guild Foundation called Anatomy Of A Script, where she and Winnie Holzman (writer of the musical Wicked and creator of My So Called Life) discuss the craft with other well-known writers. Schiff also teaches a writing class with Wendy Goldman (whom she met at The Groundlings) called Improv For Writing. more…

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