A prequel to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), the two BFF girls make it to LA 1990, where they get arrested. They make a friend in jail and stay at her place. They make more fr... Read allA prequel to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), the two BFF girls make it to LA 1990, where they get arrested. They make a friend in jail and stay at her place. They make more friends.A prequel to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), the two BFF girls make it to LA 1990, where they get arrested. They make a friend in jail and stay at her place. They make more friends.
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- Michele Weinberger
- (as Alex Breckenridge)
- Snotty Girl #1
- (uncredited)
- Girl at Party
- (uncredited)
- Snotty Girl #3
- (uncredited)
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
- Female Drummer
- (uncredited)
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShot as a pilot for a TV series in 2002. The networks passed on making it into a weekly show, so it was shelved and ultimately aired as a movie of the week in 2005.
- GoofsIn the first scene of the girls on Hollywood Boulevard, dressed as hookers, walk by a place with "DVDs" on its sign. The scene is set in 1990, while the first DVD players did not go on sale until November 1996.
- Quotes
Iowa Tourist: [he thinks they are hookers by how they are dressed] Here, girls.
[he hands them a dollar for a soda]
Iowa Tourist: I will pray for God to lead you to a better life.
Michele Weinberger: Thanks. Wow, people in LA are just so nice.
Police Officer: LAPD. You're under arrest.
[she pushes them up against the soda machines]
Police Officer: Hands against the machines.
Michele Weinberger: Under arrest for what?
Police Officer: Solicitation.
Romy White: What? We even haven't had sex... in like months.
[the officer frisks Romy in a very personal spot]
Romy White: Where *exactly* do you think I'm hiding a gun?
Police Officer: [the officer goes to Michele next] C'mon spread 'em.
Michele Weinberger: This is all a really big mistake.
Police Officer: Oh, yeah? That's for the judge to decide. Once money changes hands, you ladies have earned yourself a trip downtown.
Michele Weinberger: Money? You mean this dollar? He gave this to us to buy a tab with!
Police Officer: Uh-huh.
Romy White: It's true! What do you think she's gonna do for a dollar? Lick his neck?
- ConnectionsFollowed by Untitled Romy and Michele Sequel
- SoundtracksThe Power
Produced and Performed by Snap!
Written by The 45 King (as DJ Mark the 45 King), Chill Rob G, and Snap!
Courtesy of Arista/BMG Records
By Arrangement with BMG Special Markets
© 1990 BMG Ariola München GmbH
Robin Schiff, returning to her characters to write and direct this TV movie with our heroines before they claimed to invent Post-It notes, delivers a pretty decent script that passes the time well - this may be the only TV movie in history where a character celebrates her man-to-woman surgery with a "coming off" party (I understand this was made for the ABC Family Channel in America; over here cable won't show it until after the watershed). The story isn't original, but at least the dreaded sitcom misunderstandings aren't dwelt on for the bulk of the movie (Romy thinks their male neighbours are gay; the one Michele falls in love with thinks they're drag queens), allowing us to get on with the 1990s nostalgia and the friendship strains, and the movie surprisingly keeps from making the evil publicist's doomed-to-failure picks for success (Richard Greico, "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane") into a strained running gag.
Though amusing and likable, the trouble with this movie is that Katherine Heigl as Romy spends more time impersonating Lisa Kudrow and doing it gratingly (she's a lot better now on "Grey's Anatomy"), and as a lot of the movie centres on her character the entire proceedings suffer. (And kudos to the other poster who pointed out that Lisa Kudrow didn't play Romy in the movie in the first place, something I admit I'd forgotten until now...) Fortunately, Alex Breckenridge is better as Michele, and it's always a treat to see Paula Abdul (although the less said about the cover of "Opposites Attract" the better). And as for Kelly Brook (!) as supermodel Linda Fashionella... well, the movie does deserve praise for having both Paula Abdul and Kelly Brook in the first place.
You could do a lot worse. And it's fun to hear my two favourite moled brunettes (Paula and Cindy Crawford) get name-checked in the same movie.
- Victor Field
- Sep 21, 2005
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