Wain's 'Gail Daughtry' Called One of His Funniest Films
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- Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, with Sony Pictures Classics set to release it theatrically on July 10, per the review's editor's note
- Zoey Deutch stars as Gail, a Kansas hairstylist who travels to Los Angeles after her fiancé actually has sex with Jennifer Aniston, seeking to even the score by sleeping with Jon Hamm
- Miles Gutierrez-Riley plays Gail's gay best friend Otto, and the pair's quest to find Hamm mirrors 'The Wizard of Oz' as they pick up a rotating cast of celebrity cameos along the way
- John Slattery gives what the review calls the film's standout performance as a fictionalized version of himself — an unemployed former 'Mad Men' star desperate to get back into Jon Hamm's good graces
- Jon Hamm appears as himself in what the reviewer calls 'an excellent performance,' alongside cameos from Weird Al Yankovic and a 'Shark Tank' investor
- David Wain, co-writing with Marino, is credited with a 2014 innovation in 'They Came Together' of turning New York into a character; 'Gail Daughtry' extends that technique to Los Angeles, per the review
- The review frames the film in the lineage of 'Wet Hot American Summer,' which premiered at Sundance 25 years prior, calling Wain and Marino 'still at the absolute top of their game'
Why it matters: Sony Pictures Classics is betting on a July 10 theatrical release for a film that extends David Wain and Marino's signature non-sequitur comedy style — built around a 'Wizard of Oz'-structured celebrity-cameo romp — and the review positions it as a career high point 25 years after 'Wet Hot American Summer' debuted at the same festival.
