Divorce is both painful and a pain in the ass, especially when two people spend decades building a life that ultimately goes bust—and it’s no picnic when kids are involved, either. Comedian Amy Schumer’s latest star vehicle, Best Divorce Ever, suggests a cheerier alternative, embracing the concept of “conscious uncoupling,” a complicated-sounding adult-y term for the mutual and amiable parting of long-term partners.
The film, announced by Variety, follows Clarissa, played by Schumer, and her husband Franklin as they agree they’re “done with marriage—but not with each other.” Next steps in their divorce (described as “the world’s most amicable”) run up against typical rom-com pratfalls, including Clarissa and Franklin’s rough first forays into middle-aged single life, along with presumably more dramatically rich conflicts with their children that strain the former couple’s attempts to remain important to each other even as they’re entering new and quite separate chapters in their lives.
Schumer will also produce the film with Vanishing Angle’s Matthew Lee Miller and Natalie Metzger (Werewolves Within, Queens Of The Dead). Best Divorce Ever will be written and directed by Sean Mullin of Amira & Sam (also the producer of the criminally underseen Bob Trevino Likes It), who drew on his own chummy uncoupling for inspiration. He tells Variety, “Divorce has a branding problem[…] I think we need to change the narrative that the only successful way to end a marriage is for one person to die.” Surely, there’s at least one other way to end a marriage!
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