Sadie Sandler is ready for a new living situation in the trailer for the Netflix comedy Roommates.
Director Chandler Levack’s feature is set 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 cast.
Roommates centers on Devon (Sandler), a college freshman who asks the confident Celeste (East) to be her roommate. The arrangement leads to no shortage of passive-aggressive tension.
“I was wondering what the process is for switching roommates,” Sandler says in the trailer. “I’m having a problem with boundaries.”
Later, Sandler tells her roommate, “I would appreciate it if you didn’t sit on guys’ faces in my bed.” East replies, “That is 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 is 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 films focused on starting college.
“I really loved that it was this super funny, honest investigation of first year of college, [when] there aren’t a lot of coming-of-age movies about your first year of college,” the filmmaker said. “It really is a super bizarre time in your life where you’re leaving your family for the very first time, you’re trying to define yourself outside of everyone you’ve ever known and reinvent yourself, but you’re also terrified and socially awkward and thrust into adulthood.”
