Samantha Lorraine is putting on her backpack.
The actress, best known for her key role in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has been cast as the titular heroine in Nickelodeon Studios’ new live-action Dora the Explorer feature being made for Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.
Alberto Belli, who directed Disney+ holiday feature The Naughty Nine and episodes of Disney show Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion, is helming the new production that has a working title of Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado.
Written by J.T. Billings , the script follows as Dora, her cousin Diego and their new friends trek through perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient treasure of Sol Dorado in order to keep this powerful treasure out of enemy hands. Swiper no swiping!
Sol Dorado will be only the second time the adventurous Latina has been translated to the live-action world.
The actress, best known for her key role in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has been cast as the titular heroine in Nickelodeon Studios’ new live-action Dora the Explorer feature being made for Paramount+ and Nickelodeon.
Alberto Belli, who directed Disney+ holiday feature The Naughty Nine and episodes of Disney show Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion, is helming the new production that has a working title of Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado.
Written by J.T. Billings , the script follows as Dora, her cousin Diego and their new friends trek through perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient treasure of Sol Dorado in order to keep this powerful treasure out of enemy hands. Swiper no swiping!
Sol Dorado will be only the second time the adventurous Latina has been translated to the live-action world.
- 5/8/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adam Sandler drew raves for his performance in “Uncut Gems,” but his latest Netflix movie, “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” has so far gotten even better critics’ reviews, as well as raves for his youngest daughter, Sunny.
As of Monday afternoon, the family comedy, which co-stars his daughters, had a 96% positive ratings from critics, while the 2019 Safdie Brothers drama sits at 91%.
Audiences, at 66% positive, were less gung-ho about the Sammi Cohen-directed comedy, which premiered Aug. 25 on the streamer.
Critics are saying, essentially, “hurrah for nepotism” about Sandler’s daughter Sunny, who stars as Stacy Friedman who clashes with her Bff (Samantha Lorraine) right before their respective bat mitzvahs.
Sunny’s real-life sister Sadie Sandler plays her older sister, Ronnie, while former “Saturday Night Live” regular who also produced,” plays their father in role with limited screen time. Jackie Sandler, their real mother, also appears in the film,...
As of Monday afternoon, the family comedy, which co-stars his daughters, had a 96% positive ratings from critics, while the 2019 Safdie Brothers drama sits at 91%.
Audiences, at 66% positive, were less gung-ho about the Sammi Cohen-directed comedy, which premiered Aug. 25 on the streamer.
Critics are saying, essentially, “hurrah for nepotism” about Sandler’s daughter Sunny, who stars as Stacy Friedman who clashes with her Bff (Samantha Lorraine) right before their respective bat mitzvahs.
Sunny’s real-life sister Sadie Sandler plays her older sister, Ronnie, while former “Saturday Night Live” regular who also produced,” plays their father in role with limited screen time. Jackie Sandler, their real mother, also appears in the film,...
- 8/29/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
One of the best things about the latest coming-of-age teenage drama on Netflix is the subject matter and how it was executed. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, gave the audience some peculiar yet believable characters that many of us could relate to on an everyday basis.
Stacy Friedman, the younger daughter of Danny and Bree Friedman, is on the verge of becoming an insufferable teenager. She is going to be a 13-year-old girl, which means her bat mitzvah ceremony is going to happen soon. The ceremony will proclaim her an adult as per the Jewish faith. Apart from the bat mitzvah part, Stacy is excited about the party to celebrate the ceremony. The girl is a preteen, and she has reached a point in her life where she gets carried away by everything that happens around her. To support her dream bat mitzvah party, she has...
Stacy Friedman, the younger daughter of Danny and Bree Friedman, is on the verge of becoming an insufferable teenager. She is going to be a 13-year-old girl, which means her bat mitzvah ceremony is going to happen soon. The ceremony will proclaim her an adult as per the Jewish faith. Apart from the bat mitzvah part, Stacy is excited about the party to celebrate the ceremony. The girl is a preteen, and she has reached a point in her life where she gets carried away by everything that happens around her. To support her dream bat mitzvah party, she has...
- 8/27/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
How often do we come across a teen comedy-drama that stays true to the genre and has a smattering of coming-of-age elements in it? Netflix rarely gives us a film that has young children in the lead and makes it about friendship instead of romance and other risqué subjects. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is a Netflix romance drama film based on the book of the same name by Fiona Rosenbloom. Written by Alison Peck and directed by Sammi Cohen, the movie, released on August 25, 2023, takes us through the lives of a young schoolgirl and her best friend.
The film revolves around two teenage girls: Stacy Friedman and her best friend, Lydia Rodriguez Katz. They have been planning each other’s perfect bat mitzvah for many years in the hope of making it a talking point at their school. For those not in the know, a...
The film revolves around two teenage girls: Stacy Friedman and her best friend, Lydia Rodriguez Katz. They have been planning each other’s perfect bat mitzvah for many years in the hope of making it a talking point at their school. For those not in the know, a...
- 8/26/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Sammi Cohen has joked that Adam Sandler and Idina Menzel's 'You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' relationship is the prelude to their 'Uncut Gems' roles.Adam and Idina play a happily married couple in 'Bat Mitzvah' but they portrayed an estranged husband and wife in the 2019 movie 'Uncut Gems' and director Cohen sees some similarities between the two couples.She told Variety: "Idina is the best. Adam really loved working with her on 'Uncut Gems'. I joke that 'Bat Mitzvah' is like the happy side of their marriage, the prelude to 'Uncut Gems'. We wanted the Friedman family to feel warm, sweet, goofy, normal, relatable; she was just the perfect fit. And she’s also incredibly talented and on top of that is just a really lovely human being."The movie is a family affair for Adam, whose daughters Sunny and Sadie play the Bat Mitzvah...
- 8/26/2023
- by Colette Fahy 2
- Bang Showbiz
We all know that Adam Sandler likes working with people he knows. The movies he produces with his production company Happy Madison regularly feature Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, and other cast members from his Saturday Night Live days. Many of his movies also feature supporting turns from guys you only see in Happy Madison flicks, like Alan Covert and Peter Dante. And, of course, he loves to cast Jennifer Aniston and Drew Barrymore as his love interests.
So it’s no surprise that Sandler’s latest Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzah sees him once again paired with Idina Menzel, who played his wife in Uncut Gems. But Sandler isn’t the star of You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, a comedy based on the 2005 YA novel by Fiona Rosenbloom. Instead, it’s Sunny Sandler and Samantha Lorraine in the lead roles,...
So it’s no surprise that Sandler’s latest Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzah sees him once again paired with Idina Menzel, who played his wife in Uncut Gems. But Sandler isn’t the star of You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, a comedy based on the 2005 YA novel by Fiona Rosenbloom. Instead, it’s Sunny Sandler and Samantha Lorraine in the lead roles,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
When you’re 13 everything carries high stakes: friendships, romances, who you’re seen with, which parties you’re invited to. Nothing has an adequate frame of reference, because everything is so new, and you’re not sure if you’re supposed to handle it all like the kid you just were or the adult you want to be. The new Netflix coming-of-age comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah manages to convey this liminal state in a way that’s both deeply thoughtful and light as a feather.
- 8/25/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Adam Sandler and daughters score a surprising win for Netflix: a sweet-natured adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s teen novel
I’m as keen as the next person to roll my eyes at so-called nepo babies, but You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, a new Netflix teen comedy starring Adam Sandler and his two teenage daughters, makes the case for some upsides to maintaining the family business. Sadie Sandler as Ronnie, the sardonic older sister who can drive, and Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman, a 13-year-old struggling with her first crush, first Bff fight and one and only batmitzvah, are clearly actors in training. But the Sandlers’ affectionate rapport and palpable family chemistry lends the film, based on the book by Fiona Rosenbloom, a rare, sweet charm.
Credit as well to the director, Sammi Cohen, working with a screenplay from Alison Peck, for an evocative enough rendering of middle school,...
I’m as keen as the next person to roll my eyes at so-called nepo babies, but You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, a new Netflix teen comedy starring Adam Sandler and his two teenage daughters, makes the case for some upsides to maintaining the family business. Sadie Sandler as Ronnie, the sardonic older sister who can drive, and Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman, a 13-year-old struggling with her first crush, first Bff fight and one and only batmitzvah, are clearly actors in training. But the Sandlers’ affectionate rapport and palpable family chemistry lends the film, based on the book by Fiona Rosenbloom, a rare, sweet charm.
Credit as well to the director, Sammi Cohen, working with a screenplay from Alison Peck, for an evocative enough rendering of middle school,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Sunny Sandler in You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.Photo: Netflix
Good teen comedies work because of their ability to capture, with empathy and warmth, the whirlwind that is being a teenager. It’s not just that everything is moving fast, changing constantly, and all burdened with...
Good teen comedies work because of their ability to capture, with empathy and warmth, the whirlwind that is being a teenager. It’s not just that everything is moving fast, changing constantly, and all burdened with...
- 8/24/2023
- by Matthew Jackson
- avclub.com
Plot: Lifelong best friends Stacy and Lydia have long dreamt of epic bat mitzvahs but when popular boy Andy Goldfarb and Hebrew school drama come between them, their perfect plans go comically awry.
Review: The latest Happy Madison production for Netflix is a family affair with Adam Sandler producing and co-starring in a production led by a cast featuring his daughters, Sunny and Sadie, and his wife, Jackie. Based on the best-selling young adult novel You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah could easily have been written off as a nepotism project for the Sandler clan. But, with a heartfelt message and a theme reminiscent of classic Judy Blume, the film works far better than it has any right to. Sure, it has a few requisite moments of bathroom humor, as any Adam Sandler project is bound to feature, but You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah...
Review: The latest Happy Madison production for Netflix is a family affair with Adam Sandler producing and co-starring in a production led by a cast featuring his daughters, Sunny and Sadie, and his wife, Jackie. Based on the best-selling young adult novel You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah could easily have been written off as a nepotism project for the Sandler clan. But, with a heartfelt message and a theme reminiscent of classic Judy Blume, the film works far better than it has any right to. Sure, it has a few requisite moments of bathroom humor, as any Adam Sandler project is bound to feature, but You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah...
- 8/23/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah is a teen comedy-drama film directed by Sammi Cohen from a screenplay by Alison Peck. The Netflix is based on a novel of the same name written by Fiona Rosenbloom and it follows two best friends Stacy Friedman and Lydia Rodriguez Katz but their friendship is threatened when a popular boy comes between them. Things get so bad that Stacy decides to uninvite Lydia from her Bat Mitzvah, about which they have always dreamed. So, if you loved You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah here are some movies you should check out next.
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Touchstone Pictures
Synopsis: Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are carefree party girls who reinvent themselves for their 10-year high school reunion. With new wardrobes and wild stories of success, they make...
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Touchstone Pictures
Synopsis: Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are carefree party girls who reinvent themselves for their 10-year high school reunion. With new wardrobes and wild stories of success, they make...
- 8/21/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Welcome to TheWrap’s TV Watchlist.
It’s another week in the long, sunny month of August and we’ve got just the thing to get you out of your end-of-summer doldrums – a ton of great television! This week really is bursting at the seams, from a brand new live-action “Star Wars” series (“Ahsoka”) to the end of “Riverdale” to a new Adam Sandler Netflix movie (“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”) and your next HBO doc obsession (“Bs High”). Like we said: bursting at the seams!
On with the television!
Ahsoka
Tuesday, August 22, Disney+
Lucasfilm/Disney+
Ready to head back to a galaxy far, far away? Just a few months after “The Mandalorian” concluded its third season, we are back with another new live-action series, which serves as both a spin-off to the flagship series (“The Mandalorian”) and a follow-up series to several animated projects. “Ahsoka...
It’s another week in the long, sunny month of August and we’ve got just the thing to get you out of your end-of-summer doldrums – a ton of great television! This week really is bursting at the seams, from a brand new live-action “Star Wars” series (“Ahsoka”) to the end of “Riverdale” to a new Adam Sandler Netflix movie (“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”) and your next HBO doc obsession (“Bs High”). Like we said: bursting at the seams!
On with the television!
Ahsoka
Tuesday, August 22, Disney+
Lucasfilm/Disney+
Ready to head back to a galaxy far, far away? Just a few months after “The Mandalorian” concluded its third season, we are back with another new live-action series, which serves as both a spin-off to the flagship series (“The Mandalorian”) and a follow-up series to several animated projects. “Ahsoka...
- 8/20/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
When you look at Adam Sandler’s filmography, you might either think outrageous comedy or some seriously impressive dramatic turns in movies like Punch Drunk Love, Uncut Gems and Hustle. But for his latest Netflix flick, he is taking a back seat on camera by basically playing the beleaguered dad to his real-life daughters Sadie and Sunny Sandler, all in fictionalized roles but nevertheless all still in the family. Sandler’s real influence in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is as a producer, and in this instance he has brought forward the right creative elements to make this adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s YA book a complete delight.
It doesn’t break any rules of the teen genre, of the kind of coming-of-age movie that the late great John Hughes pioneered so successfully in the 1980s and ’90s, but it works in a modernized way that...
It doesn’t break any rules of the teen genre, of the kind of coming-of-age movie that the late great John Hughes pioneered so successfully in the 1980s and ’90s, but it works in a modernized way that...
- 8/18/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The growing pains and dramatic throes of girlhood can be character building, traumatic, and cathartic — for both cinematic protagonists and their audience. It’s certainly not an easy time for the heroine at the center of “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” whose impending rite-of-passage ushers in an adulthood she’s not quite ready to handle. Director Sammi Cohen and screenwriter Alison Peck bestow this hilarious, heartrending adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s novel with an uplifting, effervescent vision and vitality, giving voice to a young Jewish girl’s struggle to figure out who she is before the most important night of her life so far.
Seventh grader Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) is serious about her Bat Mitzvah … sorta. She’s put more thought into having a legendary party than studying the ceremonial text from the Torah. She has big dreams for a lavish New York City-themed bash,...
Seventh grader Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler) is serious about her Bat Mitzvah … sorta. She’s put more thought into having a legendary party than studying the ceremonial text from the Torah. She has big dreams for a lavish New York City-themed bash,...
- 8/18/2023
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
The new Adam Sandler comedy is a family affair.
On Thursday, the trailer debuted for the new Netflix comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”, based on the 2005 novel by Fiona Rosenbloom.
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Netflix
The film stars Sandler, along with his wife Jackie and their teenage daughters Sadie and Sunny.
“Stacy (Sunny Sandler) and Lydia (Samantha Lorraine) 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,” the official description reads.
Idina Menzel as Bree Friedman, Samantha Lorraine as Lydia Rodriguez Katz, Adam Sandler as Danny Friedman, Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman and Sadie Sandler as Ronnie Friedman in “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah...
On Thursday, the trailer debuted for the new Netflix comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”, based on the 2005 novel by Fiona Rosenbloom.
Read More: Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Christian Slater & More Hit The Picket Line As SAG-AFTRA Strike Continues
Netflix
The film stars Sandler, along with his wife Jackie and their teenage daughters Sadie and Sunny.
“Stacy (Sunny Sandler) and Lydia (Samantha Lorraine) 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,” the official description reads.
Idina Menzel as Bree Friedman, Samantha Lorraine as Lydia Rodriguez Katz, Adam Sandler as Danny Friedman, Sunny Sandler as Stacy Friedman and Sadie Sandler as Ronnie Friedman in “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah...
- 8/10/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Adam Sandler and the rest of his family are front and center in the first official trailer for Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah,” streaming Aug. 25 on the platform.
The film is an adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s coming-of-age novel of the same name. Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz have been best friends for quite some time, modernly navigating the stressors of middle school life. Stacy is busy planning her bat mitzvah and ogling over her crush, Andy Goldfarb. However, Lydia ends up stealing Stacy’s crush from her, forcing the two best friends to have a fallout.
Sandler’s daughter Sunny stars in the lead role as Stacy, while his eldest daughter Sadie also appears in the film. Sandler’s “Uncut Gems” co-star Idina Menzel plays his wife in the film.
The cast also includes “Saturday Night Live’s” Sarah Sherman, Luis Guzmán (“Punch-Drunk Love...
The film is an adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s coming-of-age novel of the same name. Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz have been best friends for quite some time, modernly navigating the stressors of middle school life. Stacy is busy planning her bat mitzvah and ogling over her crush, Andy Goldfarb. However, Lydia ends up stealing Stacy’s crush from her, forcing the two best friends to have a fallout.
Sandler’s daughter Sunny stars in the lead role as Stacy, while his eldest daughter Sadie also appears in the film. Sandler’s “Uncut Gems” co-star Idina Menzel plays his wife in the film.
The cast also includes “Saturday Night Live’s” Sarah Sherman, Luis Guzmán (“Punch-Drunk Love...
- 8/10/2023
- by McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Idina Menzel and Sarah Sherman will star in a film adaptation of “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!,” presented by Netflix, Alloy Entertainment and Adam Sandler’s production company Happy Madison.
With “Frozen” star Menzel and “Saturday Night Live” breakout Sherman, the film’s cast will also feature Sandler himself acting alongside his wife Jackie and daughters Sadie and Sunny. Also starring are Luis Guzmán, Ido Mosseri, Samantha Lorraine (“The Walking Dead: World Beyond”), Dylan Hoffman (“Next”), Dean Scott Vazquez (“Transformers: Rise of The Beasts”), Miya Cech (“Always Be My Maybe”), Ivory Baker, Dylan Dash, Millie Thorpe (“Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion”) and Zaara Kuttemperoor.
Sammi Cohen (Hulu’s “Crush”) will direct a script by Alison Peck (“Work It”) based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s 2005 young adult novel. The story will chronicle the chaotic events leading up to a girl’s bat mitzvah, threatening to completely upend her big day.
With “Frozen” star Menzel and “Saturday Night Live” breakout Sherman, the film’s cast will also feature Sandler himself acting alongside his wife Jackie and daughters Sadie and Sunny. Also starring are Luis Guzmán, Ido Mosseri, Samantha Lorraine (“The Walking Dead: World Beyond”), Dylan Hoffman (“Next”), Dean Scott Vazquez (“Transformers: Rise of The Beasts”), Miya Cech (“Always Be My Maybe”), Ivory Baker, Dylan Dash, Millie Thorpe (“Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion”) and Zaara Kuttemperoor.
Sammi Cohen (Hulu’s “Crush”) will direct a script by Alison Peck (“Work It”) based on Fiona Rosenbloom’s 2005 young adult novel. The story will chronicle the chaotic events leading up to a girl’s bat mitzvah, threatening to completely upend her big day.
- 7/13/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
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