Adam Sandler is teaming up with his Uncut Gems co-star Idina Menzel and Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman for a new Netflix young adult comedy.
You Are SO Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah! is an adaptation of a book of the same name by Fiona Rosenbloom. The film follows a 13 year-old girl’s Bar Mitzvah plans, and just how fast they comedically unravel and “threaten to ruin one of the most important events of her young life.”’
The novel also features a scene in which Stacey is cut out of a coveted BCBG dress in a mall dressing room, which has stuck with this particular author to this day (shudder). Bat mitzvahs are an endless well of cringe comedy, as we saw to brilliant effect in the recent season of Pen15, and we can’t wait to see what kind of magic Sandler creates out of this rich source material.
You Are SO Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah! is the latest project to come out of Netflix’s partnership with Sandler and his Happy Madison productions. The film will be directed by Sammi Cohen (Crush) from a screenplay by Alison Peck (Work It). Sandler is producing the film with Happy Madison executive Tim Herlihy and Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz. Barry Bernardi, Judit Maull and Kevin Grady are also executive producing for Happy Madison.
No word on release date yet,
The film boasts a supporting cast that includes Luis Guzmán, Ido Mosseri, Samantha Lorraine, Dylan Hoffman, Dean Scott Vazquez, Miya Cech, Ivory Baker, Dylan Dash, Millie Thorpe, Zaara Kuttemperoor and even Sandler’s family including his wife Jackie and their daughters Sunny and Sadie.
The film – which will be directed by Sammi Cohen – marks Sandler’s 8th film with the streamer. It is currently in production.
