Jennifer Westfeldt Adapting & Co-Starring In ‘The Sweet Spot’ At Amazon MGM Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has put a feature rendition of Amy Poeppel’s novel The Sweet Spot into development with Kissing Jessica Stein‘s Jennifer Westfeldt adapting and set to co-star in the female-driven ensemble.
Westfeldt will produce alongside Laura Lewis of Rebelle Media.
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The Sweet Spot is a multi-generational, female-driven screwball comedy set in New York City around the chaos of the holiday season. It explores found family, fresh starts, second chances, unlikely alliances, revenge, redemption, unexpected romance, and the ripple effect of seemingly small actions leading to epic consequences in the lives of people you haven’t even met … yet.
Westfeldt previously wrote the romantic comedy The Idea of You for the studio with its filmmaker Michael Showalter. The movie, which starred Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine and world premiered at SXSW, repped Amazon MGM’s biggest romantic comedy debut ever, drawing nearly 50 million global Prime Video viewers in its first two weeks.
Westfeldt wrote, produced and starred in the indie films Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira & Abby and Friends with Kids, the latter of which marked her directorial debut. In the TV space, her acting credits include Younger, Queen America, This is Us, Girls, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Notes from the Underbelly, Private Practice, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, Judging Amy and Children’s Hospital among others. Other recent credits include the Showtime series First Lady.
Westfeldt made her Broadway debut opposite Donna Murphy in Wonderful Town, directed by Kathleen Marshall, for which she received a Tony nomination, a Theater World Award and a Drama League Award. She is represented by Innovative Artists for acting, Noah Rosen and Nadya Panfilov at Writ Large for writing, and Marcy Morris at Jackoway Tyerman.
Lewis most recently produced Mr. Malcolm’s List for Bleecker Street and Universal Pictures and is an EP on Hulu’s series Tell Me Lies, which is currently in its second season. Lewis produced Sony Pictures’ Long Weekend and served as EP on An Acceptable Loss starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter, She was a co-EP on All About Nina, written and directed by Eva Vives, and Little Woods, written and directed by Nia DaCosta.
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