Sadie Sandler is prepared for a brand new living situation within the trailer for the Netflix comedy Roommates.
Director Chandler Levack’s feature is about to debut on the streaming service April 17. Chloe East, Billy Bryk, Sarah Sherman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, Storm Reid, Martin Herlihy, Josh Segarra, Carol Kane, Janeane Garofalo and Bailee Madison round out the solid.
Roommates centers on Devon (Sandler), a school freshman who asks the confident Celeste (East) to be her roommate. The arrangement results in no shortage of passive-aggressive tension.
“I used to be wondering what the method is for switching roommates,” Sandler says within the trailer. “I’m having an issue with boundaries.”
Later, Sandler tells her roommate, “I might appreciate it should you didn’t sit on guys’ faces in my bed.” East replies, “That’s an incredibly fair request.”
Levack (Mile End Kicks) helmed the movie from a script by Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara Jane O’Sullivan. Adam Sandler, who’s Sadie Sandler’s father, produces the project alongside Tim Herlihy.
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Levack explained that the premise appealed to her because she doesn’t know of many similar movies focused on starting college.
“I actually loved that it was this super funny, honest investigation of first 12 months of faculty, [when] there aren’t plenty of coming-of-age movies about your first 12 months of faculty,” the filmmaker said. “It truly is a brilliant bizarre time in your life where you’re leaving your loved ones for the very first time, you’re attempting to define yourself outside of everyone you’ve ever known and reinvent yourself, but you’re also terrified and socially awkward and thrust into maturity.”