First On The Rocks trailer serves up a love letter to New York City

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Sofia Coppola is once again joining forces with Bill Murray after their last successful pairing on LOST IN TRANSLATION back in 2003. Although they did last work together on the 2015 Netflix special A Very Murray Christmas, the upcoming comedy-drama from A24 and Apple, ON THE ROCKS, marks their first theatrical release together 17 years. The long-teased new film brings in Rashida Jones and Marlon Wayans into their filmmaking orbit and it's set against a backdrop of some wild nights in New York City.

ON THE ROCKS follows "a young New York mother faced with sudden doubts about her marriage that teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.” Being billed as “a sparkling comic adventure across the city — drawing father and daughter closer together despite one detour after another,” studio A24 says the film will see Coppola gamely tackling a “blend of an exuberant love letter to New York, a generation-clash comedy about how we see relationships differently from our parents, and a funny celebration of the complications that bind modern families even as they tie us in crazy knots." You can check out the official plot synopsis provided by A24 below:

"Laura (Rashida Jones) thinks she’s happily hitched, but when her husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix (Bill Murray), who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their own relationship."

ON THE ROCKS was the first movie announced by A24 under its new partnership with Apple TV+. Coppola last worked with A24 during the release of THE BLING RING in 2013. While A24 and AppleTV+ have not yet announced their specific release plans, today’s trailer comes the tease that the film will be available in theaters AND on AppleTV+ this October. Firm dates on those exact rollout dates are forthcoming.

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