Hit pause on the trailer for The Intervention, and you’re all but guaranteed to see a bunch of beloved TV characters on your screen, dropped in one place. The independent movie, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will hit theaters on Aug. 26, marks the directorial debut of actress Clea DuVall—who you might recognize as Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ stoic body woman on Veep—but seems destined to be remembered as the movie that sat Nicky of Orange Is the New Black, Maeby of Arrested Development, and Jean-Ralphio of Parks and Recreation at the same dinner table.
As written by DuVall, The Intervention is a Big Chill–like relationship drama that depicts a weekend getaway gone awry, as three couples orchestrate an elaborate marital intervention for friends Ruby (Cobie Smulders) and Peter (Vincent Piazza). (Yes, you read that right: How I Met Your Mother’s Robin and Boardwalk Empire’s Lucky Luciano are in on this thing, too.) Equal parts sweet, sad, and salty, the film looks to be right up the alley of any low-key indie lover, but with this many familiar faces so amiably mixed into the ensemble, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it as an intervention for your Netflix addiction.
