I saw Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion for the second time ever the other night, and I realized it needs to go in my Adventures in Babysitting/Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead/Empire Records pantheon of silly movies I should be watching embarrassingly often. There really isn't much to the movie -- I was shocked by how little actually happened between Romy learning about the reunion and the reunion itself -- but the dialogue is super quotable, the performances are really strong, and the cast is full of wonderfully random appearances by, like, Camryn Manheim and Pam from True Blood. And that dance sequence with Romy, Michelle, and Allan Cumming interpreting "Time After Time" is actually a seriously beautiful statement about individualism triumphing over sad conformity! Really!

I love you, Heather! Even if you do tell me to go fuck myself!

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I agree about Garofalo. My absolute favorite moment in the movie is Heather's reaction to the interpretive dance. I love how everyone is just standing around, watching this insanity with awe and rapt attention and Heather gives an incredibly dismissive eyeroll and just walks away. It still makes me laugh out loud to this day.
Man, I love this so much. To this day, every time I happen to say "there's a difference" I instinctively follow up it up with ". . . there's a difference." Her delivery of that line is classic!
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