In 2018, Iliza Shlesinger wrote down, "what if high school came back to bite you in the ass?" Over many, many rewrites, as well as several false starts and stops, that germ of an idea culminated in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iliza Shlesinger appears in Chasing Summer by Josephine Decker, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy ...

Notable past credits: The stand-up comic, who won “Last Comic Standing” in 2008, is known for “The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show,” six comedy specials for Netflix, and the late-night talk show “Truth & ...

Iliza Shlesinger, Josephine Decker, Garrett Wareing, and Tom Welling visited the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, to discuss their middle-aged coming-of-age saga. They say that the best way to ...

The stand-up comic plays a woman who returns to her Texas hometown for the summer in this film co-starring Garrett Wareing, Tom Welling and Megan Mullally. By Richard Lawson One comes to Sundance ...

Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in “Chasing Summer,” an upcoming romantic dramedy directed by award-winning filmmaker Josephine Decker. The filmmakers say the picture will provide a “contemporary ...

ST. LOUIS – Romantic dramedy “Chasing Summer” will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26 at the Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah, after filming was relocated from Texas and Oklahoma to St ...

Director Josephine Decker, left, and Iliza Shlesinger attend the premiere of "Chasing Summer" during the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah.

Over many, many rewrites, as well as several false starts and stops, that germ of an idea culminated in “Chasing Summer,” a comedy about a 40-something woman who returns to the Texas hometown she fled ...