Sweethearts

Sweethearts (2024)

First comes love, then comes college

Two college freshmen who decided to stick with their high school sweethearts have to pull a 'Turkey Dump' and break up with them over 'Drunksgiving' the one chaotic night before Thanksgiving in their hometown that puts their codependent friendship to the test.

Date of release
2024-10-31
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (100)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jordan Weiss

Casting

Interesting facts

Sweethearts is a 2024 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Jordan Weiss in her feature directorial debut. Produced by New Line Cinema and Picturestart, it stars Kiernan Shipka, Nico Hiraga, Caleb Hearon, Tramell Tillman, Charlie Hall, and Ava DeMary. The film was released on Max on November 28, 2024.

Production

Sweethearts is the directoral debut of Jordan Weiss. Erik Feig and Jessica Switch serve as producers, with Picturestart producing for New Line Cinema. Weiss co-wrote the screenplay with her friend Dan Brier as a semi-autobiographical script based on their own friendship but reimagined with younger versions of themselves if they had known each other during childhood and high school.

The cast was revealed to include Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga in July 2022. Shipka was Weiss' first choice for the female lead. Weiss is friends with Shipka's agent, meeting him for lunch and communicating that she was who she pictured in the role. He passed the script on to Shipka who called Weiss after reading it.

Principal photography on the film was reportedly completed August 2022. Sweehearts was filmed at locations across New Jersey, including Jersey City, Cranford, Newark, Demarest and Kinnelon with the production spending over $19 million filming in the state according to the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission. Scenes featuring Ben and Jamie at university were filmed at Ramapo College in Mahwah.

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