THE PACKAGE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Daniel Doheny (Adventures in Public School), Sadie Calvano (J. Edgar), Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers), Luke Spencer Roberts (Hail, Caesar!), Eduardo Franco (film debut), Sugar Lyn Beard (Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), Alexander Calvert (The Edge of Seventeen)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jake Szymanski (Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), director; Kevin Burrows (film debut) and Matt Mider (Forev), writers; Blake Anderson (Game Over, Man!), Adam Devine (When We First Met), Ross M. Dinerstein (1922), Anders Holm (Game Over, Man!), Kyle Newacheck (Crash the Coast), Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder) and Nicholas Weinstock (Alex Strangelove), producers; Adam Schiff (Blind Horizon), composer; Hillary Spera (Wildlike), cinematographer; Christian Hoffman (The Big O), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A group of teenage friends head out to the wilderness for a spring break camping trip, only for disaster to strike in the most painful of ways, which begins a race against time to save a prized possession…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

From the director of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, as well as producer Ben Stiller, comes a dark teen comedy which will make you wince with pain as well as laugh out loud.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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