Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Page #8

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
2,479 Views


If you f*** with me|in any way, I will rip...

each and every appendage from your body,|starting with your dick, capisce?

Look, I j-just|w- wanted to talk.

Okay.

What the hell.

What is your name?

- Clarence.|- I like your hat, Clarence.

- Thank you.|- Pick up the pace.

You wait here.|I'll prep my chopper.

- Okay.|- All right.

Oh, my God, somebody's|puking in the bushes.

Eeewww!

Hey, how you guys doin'?

Billy?

- Chubbo?|- The name is Romy.

Romy and Michele.

So, weren't you guys, like,|totally in love with me in high school?

She was.

You wanna get a room?

But you're married.

- To Christie.|- Yeah, but you've got children...

and you're a successful|real estate developer.

I do drywall for her old man's|construction company.

And-And you know this new kid?|Don't even know if he's mine.

So-

How about that room?

Okay.

Why don't you go|and get that room?

Go and wash your face|and take off all your clothes...

and I'll be up there|in five minutes.

All right!

Your fantasy|is gonna come true...

tonight.

- See you later.|- Ugh- Okay.

- God.|- Now he's gonna see what it feels like to wait.

- That's such a good one.|- Ladies.

- God, can you believe we're going home in a helicopter?|- I know. It's so cool.

I just wish everybody inside the reunion|would come out and see us lift off.

Ohh!

Thank you.

Oh.

Oh, my God! I'm so glad you didn't|bring your big notebook with you.

Michele.

Ooh, baby, do you know|what that's worth

Ooh, heaven is|a place on earth

They say in heaven|love comes first

We'll make heaven|a place on earth

Ooh, heaven is|a place on earth

Billy. Billy!

Billy, where are you?

Billy. Damn it.|Damn it!

Oh, my God.|Is that Heather?

Go for it, Heather!

Ooh, baby, do you know|what that's worth

Ooh, heaven is|a place on earth

They say in heaven|love comes first

Thanks for stopping by.

Yeah. Enjoy your fashions.

Have a Romy and Michele day.

- That was a good one.|- Thanks.

I cannot believe|how busy we've been.

I know. Hey, maybe we can|pay back Sandy this week.

Um, I think we're about, like,|two years away from that.

Oh. Okay.

Heather, um, has anyone ever told you|that smoking can kill you?

No. No one. Thank you.

Okay, but if you burn it,|you bought it.

Like I give a sh*t.|I look like an a**hole.

What? Nuh-uh.|You look totally cute.

This dress exacerbates the genetic|betrayal that is my legacy.

Okay, I don't even know what you're|talking about because of those words...

but come here.

- Ow!|- God, that has been bugging me.

- Stay away from my bikini area.|- Um, okay.

- I'm in a rush. Ring it up if you must.|- Okay.

Let me have the tag, please.

Thank you.

You really do look cute.

- You know what?|- Huh?

Despite that surly demeanour, I think|we've just given her a big gift.

Okay, I mean,|to give someone...

like Heather Mooney the chance|to express herself through fashion-

We could've really|changed her life.

Yeah. For me though,|it's like...

I've given birth to|my own baby girl, you know?

Only she's, like,|a big giant girl...

who smokes|and says "sh*t" a lot.

- You know?|- Yeah.

- Yeah. Let's fold scarves!|- Okay.

- You know what, Michele?|- Huh?

I think you are, like,|the funnest person I know.

Me too.|With you.

See the people|walkin' down the street

Fall in line|Just watchin' all the feet

They don't know|where everyone can go

But they're walkin'|in time

They got the beat|They got the beat

They got the beat|Yeah, they got the beat

All the kids|just gettin' out of school

They can't wait|to hang out and be cool

Hang around|till quarter after twelve

That's when|they fall in line

They got the beat|They got the beat

Kids got the beat|Yeah, kids got the beat

Go Go music|really makes us dance

In the crowd|it puts us in a trance

We want to|So just give us a chance

That's when|we fall in line

'Cause we got the beat|We got the beat

We got the beat|Yeah, we got it

We got the beat

- We got the beat|- Everybody get out your feet

- We got the beat|- We know you can dance to the beat

- We got the beat|- Jump back, kick 'round

- We got the beat|- 'Round and 'round and 'round

- Whoo!|- We got the beat

- We got the beat|- We got the beat

- We got the beat|- We got the beat

- We got the beat, We got the beat|- We got the beat

- We got the beat|- We got the beat

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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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