Adam Sandler has featured in a fair few Netflix comedy movies since signing a deal with the streaming service in 2014. The Meyerowitz Stories is not your average Adam Sandler Netflix comedy movie. This one – a bittersweet comic drama of family dynamics – comes from indie favourite writer-director Noah Baumbach, and it's generated significant buzz from the festival circuit. Watch our exclusive new trailer below.
Sandler is joined in the cast by Baumbach alumni Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Marvel as grown-up siblings, each wrestling with conflicting relationships with their father (a Gandalf-bearded Dustin Hoffman).
Baumbach has always walked the tightrope between drama and comedic pathos, and this will be a rare opportunity to see two usually goofy comedians flex a more serious acting muscle in a way we've only occasionally seen them do before.
After premiering at Cannes earlier this year, the film will bow at the BFI London Film Festival in a special 'Laugh' gala presented by your good friends here at Empire, before launching worldwide on Netflix on 13 October.