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 co-starring in the female-driven ensemble.

Westfeldt will produce alongside Laura Lewis of Rebelle Media. 

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 Michael Showalter romantic comedy The Idea of You for the studio which starred Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine. The movie, which world premiered at SXSW, repped Amazon MGM Studios’ biggest romantic comedy debut ever, with nearly 50 million global Prime Video viewers in its first two weeks. 

Westfeldt wrote, produced and starred in the indie films Kissing Jessica Stein (Indie Spirit Nomination, Golden Satellite Award, GLAAD Media Award, multiple Audience Awards), Ira & Abby (Best Actress/HBO Comedy Festival, multiple Audience Awards), and Friends with Kids (Top Ten Films of 2012, New York Magazine, NPR), which also 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 or Bleecker Street Media and Universal Pictures and is an EP on Hulu’s hit television series Tell Me Lies which is currently in its second season. Lewis produced Sony Pictures’ Long Weekend, served as EP on An Acceptable Loss starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter, was a Co-EP on All About Nina, written and directed by Eva Vives, and Little Woods, written and directed by Nia DaCosta.