The Sleepover

The Sleepover is a 2020 American action comedy film directed by Trish Sie, from a screenplay by Sarah Rothschild. It stars Sadie Stanley, Maxwell Simkins, Cree Cicchino, Lucas Jaye, Ken Marino, Joe Manganiello and Malin Åkerman. The film was released on August 21, 2020 by Netflix.

The Sleepover
Official poster
Directed byTrish Sie
Produced by
  • Mickey Liddell
  • Pete Shilaimon
Written bySarah Rothschild
Starring
Music byGermaine Franco
CinematographyConrad W. Hall
Edited byJonathan Schwartz
Production
companies
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • August 21, 2020 (2020-08-21) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Clancy Finch is invited by her crush Travis Schultz to a party at his house. Her brother Kevin is caught dancing in the restroom by some older students who record him dancing and bully him, but Clancy's and Kevin's mother Margot, the lunch monitor, scares them away. The bullies upload a remix video of Kevin dancing and Margot admonishing them to YouTube, where it quickly goes viral, gaining over two million views.

Kevin, Clancy, and her friend Mim are picked up by their father Ron, an awkward pastry chef. Clancy asks her parents if she can go to Travis's party and they both say no, leading to Clancy insulting her mother and getting grounded. Later, Kevin's friend Lewis comes over for a sleepover in a tent in Kevin's backyard. That night, Clancy and Mim sneak out to go to the party. They first scare the two boys causing Lewis to run into the house to pee. While in the bathroom, he notices a man and a woman break into the house and force Margot (whom they call "Mathilde") and Ron to come with them under threat of death. Lewis runs back to the tent and tells the others what happened.

Not believing him, the four run back inside until they notice United States Marshals Agent Henry Gibbs sneaking into their house. Believing him to be an intruder, they attack him and tie him to a chair. He tells the kids that Margot was in the Witness Protection Program because she turned in the crime boss of the crime syndicate she was in but she has now been located due to the viral video. They follow clues that Margot left them when she was taken away, leading them to a storage unit that turns out to be a secret spy center. They take a self-driving spy car to Travis's party. Travis agrees to take them to Downtown Boston in his family's boat, but they are stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard and Travis has a revoked license. The four jump off and swim away, then reach the building where they believe there parents are located, but instead find a secret passageway behind a painting of Margot's favorite poet W. B. Yeats leading them to the hideout of Margot's best friend Jay, who tracks Margot's GPS chip to an extravagant gala. Jay tells the kids to stay, but Clancy handcuffs her to a pipe so they can all leave.

At the gala, Ron, Margot, and Margot's criminal ex-fiancé Leo, who was also in WITSEC, are attempting to steal Queen Elise's crown by poisoning her, but when they meet her, Ron accidentally ingests the poison and vomits everywhere. The gala security then detains them, but when they are about to be sent to the FBI, Margot and Leo knock out all the security guards and they take Ron to the main floor, where they find Clancy, Kevin, Mim, and Lewis, who got in by pretending to be live musicians. The seven run away into Leo's safe house.

At the safe house, Leo reveals that he was never in witness protection but is actually the new head of the syndicate. His associate Elise holds them at gunpoint and calls the police to frame them for the theft, but Ron throws a wolf spider at her to make her drop her gun and then uses it to shoot the chandelier onto her. Margot hot-wires a car that Ron uses to drive Leo into a bunch of construction barrels, then Margot kicks the crown out of his hands and Clancy then catches it. The Boston Police arrest Leo and Henry drives everyone back to the Finch house, where Travis returns Clancy's jacket and Lewis's mother picks him up. Everyone returns to their normal lives.

Cast

Production

In August 2019, it was announced Malin Åkerman, Ken Marino, Joe Manganiello, Erik Griffin, Karla Souza, Enuka Okuma, Sadie Stanley, Maxwell Simkins, Cree Cicchino and Lucas Jaye had joined the cast of the film, with Trish Sie directing from a screenplay by Sarah Rothschild. LD Entertainment will produce the film, while Netflix will distribute.[1]

Filming

Principal photography began in August 2019.[2][3]

Release

It was released on August 21, 2020 on Netflix.[4]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 70% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.[5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6]

References
  1. D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 26, 2019). "Ken Marino, Joe Manganiello, Malin Akerman & More Are Having A 'Sleepover' With Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  2. Slane, Kevin (August 7, 2019). "Netflix will begin filming another movie in Massachusetts this month, this time on the South Shore". Boston.com. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  3. Barbuto, Dana (August 8, 2019). "Filming for Netflix action-comedy, "The Sleepover," starts Aug. 15 at Hanover High School". South Coast Today. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  4. Mallenbaum, Carly (July 22, 2020). "Netflix in August 2020: 'Legend of Korra,' 'Jurassic Park,' Jamie Foxx's 'Project Power'". USA Today. Archived from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  5. "The Sleepover (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  6. "The Sleepover reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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