Reunion, also known as American Reunion, is a 2001 American film directed by Leif Tilden and Mark Poggi using the filmmaking techniques of Dogme 95 style. It stars Billy Wirth and Jennifer Rubin in a bittersweet tale about six former classmates gathering 24 hours before their 20th high school reunion. Reunion is listed as the 17th film to conform to the minimalist tenets of the Danish avant-garde school of Dogme.
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Selected Cast
Billy Wirth as Brad
Jennifer Rubin as Jeanie
Corey Glover as Ty
Marlene Forte as Margaret
Rainer Judd as Mindy
Dwier Brown as Patrick
Andres Faucher as J.C.
Steven Gilborn as George
Georgia Simon as Georgina
Rod Britt as Mr. Andretti
Dan Gunther as Kile
Michael James Johnson as Michael
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 11 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.6/10. Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a negative review, finding it to pale in comparison to other films of the Dogme 95 movement, writing: "The essence of Dogma is the stripping away of slick, external factors to produce an emotional rawness. "Reunion," filmed in California, has nothing to strip down to: instead of exposing the truth, it exposes incompetence and the emptiness of the script."