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Published April 19, 2026 8:35pm
Updated April 19, 2026 8:35pm
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A new comedy movie is making waves on Netflix (Picture: Scott Yamano/ Netflix)
A new Netflix comedy movie that stars the daughter of a Hollywood legend has soared up the charts.
This week the black comedy Roommates was released on the streaming service, where it’s now the second most-watched movie on the streaming service in the UK.
The ‘unhinged’ release follows college roommates Devon – played by Sadie Sandler – and Celeste, played by Chloe East, whose ‘blossoming friendship spirals into a war of passive aggression and hilarious chaos’.
As Netflix has teased, Devon is a shy first year student who agrees to be roommates with the fiery Celeste.
Although the two are polar opposites, they click and quickly become inseparable.
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‘Devon and Celeste wade through freshman-year chaos — frat parties, first hangovers, packed school schedules, and new friends — arm in arm,’ Tudum has shared.
Roommates stars Sadie Sandler and Chloe East as college roommates (Picture: Scott Yamano/ Netflix)
‘At first, their friendship buoys Devon during her first stint away from her parents, Brian and Hannah, and her little brother, Alex.
‘But soon Devon feels increasingly irritated by and distrustful of Celeste. During a fateful, karaoke-fueled spring break in Panama City, their war of passive aggression boils over, showing just how crazy your roommates can make you.’
Sadie, 19, is the daughter of Adam Sandler – whose films have grossed over $2billion (£1.4billion) worldwide – and his wife Jackie Sandler. Over the years he’s starred in movies including Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates.
The actress began appearing in films as a child but has more recently featured in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Happy Gilmore 2.
Meanwhile her co-star Chloe also began her career as a child star when she appeared in True Blood and has since gone on to appear in The Fabelmans and Heretic.
After initially being inseparable, passive aggression between the pair boils over (Picture:Scott Yamano/ Netflix)
It’s been described as having the chance to be a ‘formative’ viewing experience for some (Picture: Scott Yamano/ Netflix)
Roommates was directed by Chandler Levack, with the producers being Adam’s company Happy Madison. The script was written by Saturday Night Live’s Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O’Sullivan.
Although reviews of the film have been mixed, The Guardian questioned why it was quietly dropped without little fanfare.
‘Roommates is unusually baffling, an undeniably imperfect film yes, but one with enough going for it that I could imagine some early champions. The bar for comedies, teen comedies, streaming comedies and, christ, streaming movies at large is as low as it can possibly go at this oversaturated yet underdeveloped moment which makes Roommates a film to shout about rather than quietly bury,’ its review read.
‘Roommates might not rival the fizzy, formative teen films it both references (Clueless) and often directly cribs from (Mean Girls) but it still belongs in a different league to what we’re mostly served right now. Could someone possibly tell that to Netflix?’ it added.
In its wrap of the film, Variety shared: ‘There’s a complicated, bittersweet study of female friendship fighting to free itself from the glib, shiny, Saturday Night Live-adjacent comic veneer of Roommates, and when it shows through, in enticing fits and starts, it even approaches wisdom.
Sadie is the daughter of actor and comedian Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie (Picture: Axelle/ Bauer-Griffin/ FilmMagic)
She recently appeared alongside her dad in Happy Gilmore 2 (Picture: Netflix/ Everett/ Shutterstock)
‘Elsewhere, however, this Netflix original from up-and-coming Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack disappointingly flattens the moral and emotional zigzags of an increasingly toxic college roommate situation, losing nuance as it seeks to appoint one of its leads a heroine and the other a villain.’
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Meanwhile IndieWire wrote: ‘The film won’t be remembered as a campus classic, or even in the upper half of college movies, but it’s also not hard to see a world where somebody watches it at exactly the right time in their lives and proceeds to cherish it forever. Roommates has a real chance at being a formative experience for someone, which is more than a lot of movies can say. But those of us who have already been sufficiently formed? We can find better things to stream this weekend.’
However, some viewers who have already rushed to tune in have called it ‘hilarious’, ‘relatable and funny’ and ‘a modern twist on the classic coming of age teen movie with some great throwbacks’.
Roommates also stars Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne, Big Mouth’s Nick Kroll and The Princess Bride’s Carol Kane.
Roommates is streaming on Netflix.
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