Movie Details:
Based on | You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah by Fiona Rosenbloom |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Comedy Drama |
Release Date | August 25, 2023 |
Running Time | 1hr 43min |
Age rating | PG-13 |
Cast | Idina Menzel Jackie Sandler Adam Sandler Sadie Sandler Sunny Sandler Samantha Lorraine Dylan Hoffman Sarah Sherman Dan Bulla Ido Mosseri Jackie Hoffman Luis Guzmán |
Directed by | Sammi Cohen |
Written by | Alison Peck |
Produced by | Adam Sandler Tim Herlihy Leslie Morgenstein Elysa Koplovitz Dutton |
Cinematography by | Ben Hardwicke |
Edited by | Jamie Keeney |
Music by | Este Haim Amanda Yamate |
Production Company | Happy Madison Productions Alloy Entertainment |
Distributor | Netflix |
Cast and Characters:
- Idina Menzel as Bree Friedman, Stacy and Ronnie’s mother
- Jackie Sandler as Gabi Rodriguez Katz, Lydia’s mother
- Adam Sandler as Danny Friedman, Stacy and Ronnie’s father
- Sadie Sandler as Ronnie Friedman, a high school student and Stacy’s older sister
- Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman, a middle school student looking forward to her bat mitzvah
- Samantha Lorraine as Lydia Rodriguez Katz, Stacy’s half-Jewish, half-Hispanic best friend
- Dylan Hoffman as Andy Goldfarb, Stacy’s classmate and love interest
- Sarah Sherman as Rebecca, a rabbi
- Dan Bulla as Jerry, a cantor
- Ido Mosseri as DJ Schmuley, an Israeli DJ who performs at both Lydia and Stacy’s bat mitzvahs
- Jackie Hoffman as Irene, an elder in Stacy’s synagogue congregation
- Luis Guzmán as Eli Rodriguez, Lydia’s Hispanic father
Storyline:
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who’ve always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
About Movie:
- The film is based on the 2005 young adult novel of the same name by Fiona Rosenbloom.
- In 2022, Netflix announced that the 2005 young adult novel You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah by Fiona Rosenbloom would be adapted by screenwriter Alison Peck into a feature film of the same name.
- Principal photography for the film began on June 29, 2022, in Toronto, Canada, and lasted until August 11.
- Adam Sandler’s and Idina Menzel’s second collaboration and movie where they play husband and wife. The first was Uncut Gems (2019).
- You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah was released by Netflix on August 25, 2023.