Directed by Lawrence’s longtime friend Gene Stupnitsky, the film casts the Oscar-winning actor as a Montauk Uber driver facing bankruptcy who accepts a Craigslist ad to date and seduce an awkward 19-year-old (Andrew Barth Feldman).
The boy’s helicopter parents don’t want him leaving for college as a virgin.
Stupnitsky and Lawrence said last month that “No Hard Feelings” was based on a real-life Craigslist ad. The director told EW that it was the film’s producers, Marc Provissiero and Naomi Odenkirk, who sent him the Craigslist ad.
“Gene read the Craigslist ad to me, and I died laughing,” Lawrence added. “I thought it was hilarious, but there wasn’t a script or anything. I just thought he had a funny idea. And then a couple years later, he handed me the funniest script I’ve ever read in my life.”
“A theatrical release these days is, uh…It’s a test,” Lawrence also said in the EW interview. “You get tested publicly, and everyone knows if you pass through. But I feel we’re putting our best foot forward.”
Stupnitsky is a veteran of the R-rated comedy genre having directed the raunchy 2019 comedy “Good Boys,” a coming-of-age film starring Jacob Tremblay. He also served as a co-writer on 2011’s “Bad Teacher” and 2009’s “Year One.”
No Hard Feelings opens in theaters on June 23.
