Amy Poehler Comedy 'Wine Country' Is Based on an 'SNL' Girls Trip with Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer

Mar. 16, 2025

Beloved funny ladies andSaturday Night Livealums Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch are taking audiences on a girls trip.

More specifically, they’re all starring in a movie together calledWine Country, which is loosely based on a real-life vacation their group of friends/cast members took together, and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the women in action.

“Wine Countryis a comedy about long time friends going on a trip to celebrate a 50th birthday,” Poehler tells PEOPLE in the latest issue. “It is loosely based on a real trip that myself and the cast took, and it’s an attempt to show what deep and lasting female friendships look like. “

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TheWine Countrycast, (clockwise from left): Paula Pell, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch and Emily Spivey.Colleen Hayes/Netflix

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Joining Poehler, Rudolph, Gasteyer, and Dratch in the girls trip fun/all-star ensemble are more well-known comediennes andSNLfavorites: Paula Pell, Emily Spivey and Tina Fey. Pell still writes for film and television, in addition to acting. She was a writer atSNLfor more than 20 years and created some of the show’s most memorable sketches — Debbie Downer, The Spartan Cheerleaders, and many more. Spivey was a writer onSNLfor nearly a decade and continues to write for television shows likeModern Family,The Last Man on EarthandUp All Night.

Wine Countryis available to stream May 10 on Netflix.

source: people.com