'All About Nina' Trailer: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is A Filthy, Drunk Stand-Up Looking For Love In L.A.

One of the standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival was the rom-com from filmmaker Eva Vives, “All About Nina.” The film, which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a struggling, up-and-coming stand-up comedian is definitely raunchy, but also laugh-out-loud hilarious. And in the first trailer for the film, set to hit theaters next month, you see exactly why we loved this movie.

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Clearly, the trailer leans heavily on the tried and true “gross stand-up stinks at relationships” schtick that many similar films, like “Trainwreck,” have done before. But believe us, the film is much, much more, as Winstead delights in the title role and the relationship at the center of the film is far from typical.

The film comes from first time writer-director Vives, and stars the aforementioned Winstead, alongside Common, Chace Crawford, Clea DuVall, Kate del Castillo, and Beau Bridges.

“All About Nina” hits theaters, courtesy of The Orchard, on September 28.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Nina Geld is an up-and-coming comedian in New York City. She’s funny, smart and has worked hard to build a career for herself in the male-dominated world of stand-up. When it comes to romantic relationships though, Nina’s life is a mess. When we meet her, she has picked up a random guy in a bar and brought him home, only to find Joe, a married policeman, waiting for her against her wishes. Unable to stand up for herself, Nina sleeps with Joe again, bringing up old issues of self-hatred. Nina decides to focus on work and later gets Larry Michaels, producer of the legendary television show, Comedy Prime, to come see Nina’s stand-up. Amazingly, he asks Nina to audition! She will need to create characters/impersonations and move to LA to audition. In LA, she meets Rafe Hines, a dream-come-true, quintessential good-guy who makes all of Nina feel good. But when Joe shows up in LA unexpectedly, Nina has to deal with her past. She has a breakdown on stage and reveals a history of abuse that has driven her reckless behavior. Finally confronting the truth in such a public setting has terrifying and unexpectedly liberating consequences.