The Napa Boys
The Napa Boys is a 2025 American comedy film directed by Nick Corirossi and co-written by Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, who also star. The film premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures later acquired U.S. distribution rights.
Plot
Presented as The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet, the film follows a trio of wine-obsessed characters who go on an adventure through California's wine country. They start with a high-stakes wine competition, and a series of escalating absurd set-pieces. Critics noted the intentionally nonsensical narrative structure and the film's barrage of inside-joke-driven humour.Cast
- Armen Weitzman as Miles Jr.
- Nick Corirossi as Jack Jr.
- Sarah Ramos as Puck
- Steve Agee as Ethan Nerdone
- Jack Allison as Sam Fantwo
- Chris Aquilino as John
- Natasha Behnam as Skyler
- Chloe Cherry as Kim
- Vanessa Lee Chester as Loretta
- Beth Dover as Trixie
- Mike Hanford as Officer Roland
- Natasha Leggero as Annie
- Riki Lindhome as Monica
- Mike Mitchell as Mitch Mitchellson
- Jamar Malachi Neighbors as Stiffler's Brother
- Paul Rust as Squirm
- David Wain as Wilbur Winejudge
- Ray Wise as Officer Toland
- Ivy Wolk as Prancer
Production
Corirossi and Weitzman developed the film as a franchise spoof similar to Sideways with the gross-out sensibility of early-2000s ensemble comedies like American Pie or Wet Hot American Summer. The filmmakers framed the movie as the "fourth entry" in a fictional franchise, complete with in-universe mythology and recurring characters.Release
The film premiered on September 12, 2025, in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness program. Following early festival screenings, Magnolia Pictures acquired U.S. distribution rights, It is scheduled to be released on February 27, 2026.Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a mixed rating, with critics divided between praising its boldness and criticizing its deliberately disorienting tone. RogerEbert.com described the film as potentially challenging to viewers, as it throws them into the "deep end of a franchise that never existed until this installment."Variety highlighted the film's blend of wine-country parody and absurdist raunch comedy, calling it a fusion of Sideways and American Pie.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that some of the film's more extreme early gross-out sequences prompted walk-outs during its TIFF screening.