What are the best high school class reunion movies?

Well, time marches on, now doesn't it? As if I needed yet another reminder than I'm getting older, the invite for the ol' class reunion just came in. Yay. I'm filled with a sense of anxiety, the kind most of us encounter when we know we're going back to high school for just one night. I'm happy with my life, I have a great husband and a nice career going, but still: Ugh.

As I sat here thinking about the hair appointment I need to get ("Gotta hide those pesky gray hairs!") and the need to drop ten pounds in a matter of two weeks (okay, unrealistic, I know I know), I also began thinking about my favorite high school class reunion movies. I'm not sure everyone will agree with me that these are excellent films, but believe me, each one gets something totally right.

The first high school reunion movie that came to mind was Peggy Sue Got Married. It's a hilarious take on what it might be like to not only attend your 25th high school reunion, but to actually go back in time to senior year. Would you change anything you did back then? Bet you would - or you'd at least think about it. I can't say my senior year decisions affected the way I live my life now, but it's still a fun movie.

Another reunion movie that my bestie (from high school) and I love is Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. We saw this film together in the theater way back when, and thought it might be hilariously fun to do what the title characters do: Make up awesomely fake lies about what we've been doing since high school. I was going to be a travel writer for Conde Nast, she was going to be an executive on Wall Street (remember this, was years ago). Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino cracked me up in Romy, so if you've got high school reunion anxiety, this movie might help you at least laugh about it.

And I guess if I had to pick another reunion movie I liked, it would be 2012's 10 Years. It's a huge ensemble cast movie that includes Channing Tatum, Justin Long, Chris Pratt, Lynne Collins and Rosario Dawson, among others. I just saw this not too long ago and while it's far from my favorite movie on the subject, it's an interesting dramedy that follows a group of high school alumni, ten years removed, who are still kind of struggling. It seems pretty realistic, and the writing is clever.

Honorable mentions definitely go to Grosse Pointe Blank and yes, The Big Chill, even though it isn't a high school reunion movie, it's on my mind right about now.

Okay, high school reunion movies, your favorites: Go!

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