First Trailer for Owen Wilson’s New Screwball Comedy, She’s Funny That Way

Screwball comedy is a dying art form. Normally, I would call it a completely dead one, but word came out of Venice Film Festival that Peter Bogdanovich has revived the style with his apparently charming daydream starring Owen Wilson: She’s Funny That Way. The filmmaker who gave the world such gems as Paper Moon and Mask, Bogdanovich is enjoying his first theatrical film since 2001’s The Cat’s Meow—and his first screenplay since 1990—creating definite buzz on this side of celluloid nostalgia.

And now that interest has a new trailer to go with the reputation of this star-studded farce. Playing things pretty close to the vest, you can still check out the trailer that (at least on paper) promises an amusing diversion: Izzy (Imogen Poots) is a down on her luck prostitute that meets a client with a soft spot for fallen ladies (Owen Wilson). When he gives her $30,000 to start her life over as an actress, he has no idea that she will coincidentally show up at an audition for his new play…in which his wife (Kathryn Hahn) is already cast.

Jennifer Aniston, Will Forte, and Rhys Ifans also star in She’s Funny That Way, which arrives in theaters on April 10, 2015.