Neon has successfully acquired the North American theatrical distribution rights to the upcoming comedy titled Babes, which serves as Emmy winner Pamela Adlon‘s feature directorial debut.
According to Deadline, the film was privately screened during the Toronto International Film Festival, where Neon won the bidding war for the project against five distributors.
“After becoming pregnant from a one-night-stand, aggressively single Eden leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn, to guide her through gestation and beyond,” reads the film’s synopsis.
Babes is directed by Adlon from a screenplay written by Ilana Glazer and Josh Rabinowitz. The upcoming film won’t be Adlon’s first venture into directing, as she previously directed episodes of FX’s comedy-drama Better Things, which ran on-air for five seasons from 2016-2022.
The comedy stars Glazer (Broad City, Rough Night), Michelle Buteau (Always Be My Maybe, Survival of the Thickest), Hasan Minhaj (Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj), and John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, American Horror Story). It is produced by Glazer, Rabinowitz, Susie Fox, Ashley Fox, and Breean Pojunas, with Range Media Partners and FilmNation serving as financiers.
