First Time Female Director

Shoestring-budget indie dramedy "First Time Female Director" has a snappy title, Amy Poehler & Max Greenfield in minor support, blink-n-miss-em cameos from Jordan Peele, Nick Kroll & Adam Scott... and absolutely nothing else. When her local theatre has no director for its new play, the playwright Chelsea Peretti (who btw is also the movie's first time female director (and writer)) steps up, trying to herd the cast (Megan Stalter, Benito Skinner, Kate Berlant, Blake Anderson, Megan Mullally & Jay Knight) thru the various pre-production phases. Tho it's supposed to be ironically cringily painful, it's just cringily painful... the irony falls flat, as does the movie. It is a painful experience.