Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

A veteran of TV's most idiosyncratic sitcoms (The Larry Sanders Show, The Simpsons, Get a Life, Newhart), David Mirkin made his feature directorial debut with Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, a flyweight farce about lovable dimwits who dream big. Mirkin followed up with 2001's Heartbreakers (starring Sigourney Weaver and Gene Hackman), but never quite achieved traction on the big screen; nevertheless, Romy and Michele remains a cult classic of sorts for its oddball sensibility and judicious pairing of Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino in their prime.

Given Mirkin’s pedigree, it’s no surprise that Romy and Michele is both sitcomedic in feel and also consistently amusing and warm toward its lead characters even as it mocks them for their myopia.