First Time Female Director

Name: First Time Female Director
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 8, 2024
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Amy Poehler, Andy Richter, Blake Anderson, Brad Hall, Chelsea Peretti

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Roku | Release Date (Streaming): March 8, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Amy Poehler, Andy Richter, Blake Anderson, Brad Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Kate Berlant, Max Greenfield, Megan Mullally, Natasha Leggero, Tim Heidecker

Summary: With First Time Female Director, Chelsea Peretti wears all the hats. Making her directorial debut, the comedian is also on hand as writer and producer, and she leads a hilarious, star-studded cast as Sam, a playwright working for a small local theater in Glendale. When the theater’s director is fired for inappropriate behavior, Sam isWith First Time Female Director, Chelsea Peretti wears all the hats. Making her directorial debut, the comedian is also on hand as writer and producer, and she leads a hilarious, star-studded cast as Sam, a playwright working for a small local theater in Glendale. When the theater’s director is fired for inappropriate behavior, Sam is thrust into the leadership role, where she quickly discovers that being a director may be a lot more challenging than she originally thought. Wanting to stage her dream production, a rural drama set in the South, Sam finds a bevy of issues (including a recalcitrant cast) awaiting her and threatening her latest work. [Tribeca]… Expand

Director: Chelsea Peretti

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Collider Taylor Gates

Mar 10, 2024

Despite its sometimes rocky editing and crowded ensemble, First Time Female Director does what it sets out to do: make you laugh and laugh hard. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Jun 23, 2023

Theoretically, it’s a solid generator of comic tension, with a clear timeline taking the production through rehearsals, tech, dress, opening night, and beyond. But Peretti dices these segments into so many blackout sketches that the whole thing feels as weirdly protracted and repetitive as the frequent slow-mo shots Peretti inserts for reasons beyond my understanding. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Feb 22, 2024

The film begins to sag the deeper we get into Sam’s story, which requires more digging than Peretti can give us. The jokes are rarely the same, but they hit similar notes; the problems with the characters feel repetitive; and the movie circles the same ideas until plot points need to be tidied. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Mar 11, 2024

Though its loose, improvisatory feel is suited to the material, most of its humor feels like the first draft of a better film — as though the entire movie consists of what should have been deleted scenes. Read full review

The Playlist Jason Bailey

Feb 22, 2024

First Time Female Director is a tremendous disappointment because Peretti is such a gifted performer; it’s understandable to go in pulling for her (this viewer certainly did), but those layers of goodwill just peel away as scene after scene simply does not work. Too much of what she’s assembled is just half-hearted cringe comedy—much of it without the comedy half of the equation. Read full review

Screen Rant Patrice Witherspoon

Feb 22, 2024

Its endless, unfunny humor is tiresome and obnoxious, the commentary is short-lived, and jokes related to Sam’s unpreparedness are repetitive. Read full review

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