Coastal Elites

Coastal Elites is a 2020 American comedy television film directed by Jay Roach and written by Paul Rudnick. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Paulson, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy and Issa Rae as five people living in either New York City or Los Angeles, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coastal Elites premiered on HBO on September 12, 2020 to mixed reviews from critics.

Cast

Bette Midler as Miriam Nessler
Kaitlyn Dever as Sharynn Tarrows
Dan Levy as Mark Hesterman
Sarah Paulson as Clarissa Montgomery
Issa Rae as Callie Josephson
Production

In June 2020, it was announced Bette Midler, Sarah Paulson, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy and Issa Rae had joined the cast of the film, with Jay Roach directing from a screenplay by Paul Rudnick. The project was shot remotely.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of. The website's critics consensus reads, "The top-shelf cast gives Coastal Elites a passionate pulse, but redundant speechifying and the stilted format result in a repetitive preaching to the choir." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.