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Romy Michelle's High School Reunion Helps Me Further Discredit Any Masculity... Presented by Matt on 04/12/00  In a vain attempt to get a lot of nasty rumors started about me wherever I go, I chose to make one of my favorite movies Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. I know what you're saying to yourself right now: 1.- Hey! This guy supports alternative lifestyles! Yay! C'mon, let's not get too deep. It's just a movie. Albeit a kinda 'girly' movie, but it's still fucking great. Still not sold? Well, it may be a girl flick, but it's got Lisa Kudrow and Miro Sorvino wearing hot outfits in it. So you can just tell your friends it's softcore porn. Tell them you heard Lisa and Mira had a makeout scene. They'll understand.  The plot? Romy and Michelle, two girls in their late 20s living in Los Angeles with high fashion but low on the totem poll of success, find out that their ten year high school reunion back in Tuscon, Arizona is coming up. They start getting nostalgic, and we get some flashback clips which show us that life wasn't always so grand for our two lovely ladies.. * Back in high school, Romy was fat, and Michelle had scoliosis, which made her need to wear a giant, screeching backbrace. The 'A Group', led by the school's most popular bitch, Kristi, berates the duo by eating Romy's cherished hamburger and sticking fruit magnets on Michelle's backbrace. A few more sordid clips later, and Romy and Michelle decide to go to reunion. Problem: how would they impress anyone? They're almost 30, they still live together, Romy is a cashier and Michelle is unemployed. After failing to get boyfriends and jobs in two weeks, the duo decides to lie. They make business suits, and on the car ride there, decide to claim that they invented Post-Its.  See? Told you it was classic. Let's continue... On the way there, Romy and Michelle get into a fight, and after Michelle has a dream sequence where she gets hit by a limo and knows the formula for glue, they're off to the prom. It doesn't take long for the Kristy to publicly humiliate them and expose their Post-Its lie, but they end up coming out on top in the climax. So what if I ruined the movie for you, I didn't mention the best part. Jeanne Garafolo. Playing a world-hating outcast, here's one of her best lines from the movie:  Romy & Michelle's will probably end up being a cult classic along the same lines of Heathers and the elusive live-action Smurfs movie. It's actually one of the better scripted movies I've ever seen, and there's no way you won't laugh a few times. It's the kind of movie that'll be on HBO 80 times in a month, yet you'll still watch it every time you come across it. As with most of what I speak about here, I strongly reccomend renting this one. Or you can buy it and memorize the movie line for line. Just like me! You can be...just...like...me! Yeah.  God I fucking love Mira Sorvino. -- Matt
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