After many years of countless productions set in the 80s, Netflix is slowly moving on to the next decade – and their upcoming holiday comedy might make you feel a bit old.Mixtapeis set in late 1999 and follows a young girl trying to retrieve songs her late parents recorded on a cassette tape. The movie premieres next month.
The trailer reveals a coming-of-age, end-of-the-year adventure that sees a fun banter between the starGemma Brooke AllenandModern FamilyalumJulie Bowen, who plays her grandmother. Get ready to see Walkmen, cassette tapes, landlines, dial-up Internet, and, of course, the whole concept of a mixtape and what they represent. Take notes, Gen-Z!
The story has aCameron Crowevibe in the sense that music dictates some beats of the story, and it connects Allen’s character with her dead parents. The director,Valerie Weiss, is helming a feature film after a long stint on TV, during which she directed episodes ofOuter Banks,Suits,Chicago Med,The Resident, andWhy Women Kill. The screenplay is byStacey Menear, who’s doing a genre switch after writing 2016’s horror filmThe Boy.
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Aside from Allen and Bowen, the cast also featuresAudrey Hsieh,Olga Petsa,Jackson Rathbone, andNick Thune.Mixtapeis produced by two-time Academy Award NomineeGil Netter(Life of Pi,Just Mercy) andJim Wedaa(Mission to Mars,Unstoppable).
Netflix premieresMixtapeon December 3. You can watch the trailer here:
Check out the official synopsis and poster below:
On the eve of Y2k, orphaned, awkward 12-year-old Beverly Moody (Gemma Brooke Allen) discovers a broken mixtape crafted by her teen parents who died in a car accident when she was a baby. Raised by her grandmother Gail (Julie Bowen), a former teen mom herself who finds it painful to speak about her late daughter, Beverly sees this mixtape as a chance to finally learn more about her parents. So she sets out on a journey to find all the songs on the tape. Along the way, she makes friends with her quirky neighbor, Ellen (Audrey Hsieh); intimidatingly tough, Nicky (Olga Petsa); and Anti (Nick Thune), an anti-everything record store owner who’s the key to finding these tracks, and a renewed bond between Gail and Beverly.
