Gabriel LaBelle, Conor Sherry & Mika Abdalla To Star In Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Coming-Of-Age Comedy ‘The Snack Shack’ For MRC Film And T-Street; Yeardley Smith’s Paperclip Ltd Producing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans), Conor Sherry (The Terminal List) and Mika Abdalla (Sex Appeal) will lead the cast of coming-of-age comedy The Snack Shack, which Adam Carter Rehmeier (Dinner in America) wrote and is directing for the collective emerging filmmakers label of MRC Film and T-Street.The film currently in production in Nebraska is a story about two best friends in 1991 Nebraska City who unexpectedly win the silent auction to run the swimming pool snack shack.
The snack shack then becomes the long summer’s epicenter of misdemeanors, personal discovery and budding romance.Jordan Foley, Ben Cornwell and Nick Smith are producing for Paperclip Ltd, alongside Ben LeClair of T-Street, with Paperclips’ Yeardley Smith serving as executive producer.“Everyone has the summer that was crucial to their own coming-of-age story.
This film explores a beautiful sweet spot, a period in time where kids were still very autonomous and free-range in the summer,” said Rehmeier. “I’m thrilled to be working with MRC, T-Street, and Paperclip, as well as the fantastic cast and crew, to bring this love letter to my hometown of Nebraska City to the world.”Rehmeier previously wrote and directed the punk rock rom-com Dinner in America, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to play and win awards at such festivals as Fantasia, Tallinn Black Nights, Neuchâtel, Odessa, Stockholm and Nightstream, prior to its May 2022 theatrical release.LaBelle is a TIFF 2022 Rising Star who will next be seen in a lead role in Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, alongside Michelle Williams and Seth Rogan.
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