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Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah
party. Now, it looks like his production company is making a bat mitzvah-
themed film.

The casting site Backstage has posted a casting call for an in-the-works
adaptation of “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” a 2005 young
adult novel by Fiona Rosenbloom.

Whether Sandler will have a role in the middle school-set story has not
yet been revealed, but his Happy Madison Productions company is behind
the film. Sammi Cohen, who has helmed other teen films such as “Crush,”
“Hollywood Darlings” and “Mr. Student Body President,” is directing. At
least part of the filming will take place between June 20 and Aug. 12 in
Toronto, according to the casting call.

In the novel, teenager Stacy Friedman is determined to host the best
bat mitzvah ever, in the face of middle school drama and competing love
interests. The Backstage post features a specific call for the role of Dante, a
12-to-14-year-old “foreign exchange student from Italy with a slight Italian
accent” who is not Jewish but “is earnestly interested in the Jewish faith
and helping out in the community.”
The movie will likely end up on Netflix; Sandler signed a deal in the
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Adam Sandler at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in Los Angeles on June 1
beginning of 2020 to make four more films with the streaming giant. Since
then, the production company has released two: “Hubie Halloween” and
“Hustle.” Sandler threw his daughter Sunny a bat mitzvah with the likes of Jennifer
Aniston, Charlie Puth and Sandler’s good friend David Spade in Los Angeles
last month. Two years ago, he held an equally celebrity-filled bash for his
eldest daughter Sadie, which included a performance by Adam Levine.

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