The Reunion Film Cycle

Four American films made between the mid-to-late 1990s used high school reunions as plot devices for exploring Generation X's experience’s of young adulthood.

Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) and Romy White (Mira Sorvino) in the 1997 film Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures Distribution).

Please support my work by becoming a free or a paid subscriber to the newsletter. Paid subscribers can access my full archive of posts at any time, and are vital to me being able to continue producing and expanding this newsletter.

This post is part of the ‘Research and Reflections’ occasional series, consisting of pieces based on my ongoing academic research, as well as on my musings on and responses to current affairs and personal development.

Content warnings: Trauma; Violence; Murder; Mental illness; Child sexualisation.

Spoiler alert: This is an analysis of the films Beautiful Girls, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Grosse Pointe Blank, and Since You’ve Been Gone and their themes, and as such reveals plot details for the purpose of enhancing that analysis.