The Napa Boys is a 2025 American comedy film directed by Nick Corirossi and co-written by Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, who also star. The film premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]Magnolia Pictures later acquired U.S. distribution rights.[2]
Presented as The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet, the film follows a trio of wine-obsessed character who go on an adventure through California's wine country. They start with a high-stakes wine competition, and a series of escalating absurd set-pieces. Critics noted the intentionally nonsensical narrative structure and the film's barrage of inside-joke-driven humour.[3]
Corirossi and Weitzman developed the film as a franchise spoof similar to Sideways with the gross-out sensibility of early-2000s ensemble comedies like American Pie or Wet Hot American Summer.[4] The filmmakers framed the movie as the "fourth entry" in a fictional franchise, complete with in-universe mythology and recurring characters.[5]
Release
The film premiered on September 12, 2025, in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness program.[6] Following early festival screenings, Magnolia Pictures acquired U.S. distribution rights,[7] with a planned theatrical release in early 2026.[8]
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a mixed rating, with critics divided between praising its boldness and criticizing its deliberately disorienting tone.[3] RogerEbert.com described the film as potentially challenging to viewers, as it throws them into the "deep end of a franchise that never existed until this installment."[1]
Variety highlighted the film's blend of wine-country parody and absurdist raunch comedy, calling it a fusion of *Sideways* and *American Pie*.[4]
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that some of the film's more extreme early gross-out sequences prompted walk-outs during its TIFF screening.[7]
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