Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat Reunite for Stoner Comedy The Wrong Girls, Hitting Theatres August 14
Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat reunite on screen this week in The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy from writer-director Dylan Meyer that opens in US cinemas on 14 August 2026. Neon, the indie distributor behind recent festival favourites, is backing the film as a theatrical-only release — no streaming date attached (Deadline; Neon, via Facebook).
Stewart plays Frankie, a Stanford engineering dropout; Shawkat plays Molly, a culinary cannabis artist. The two best friends share a codependent bond that gets stranger when a new drug lets them read minds and communicate telepathically — all while scrambling to pay rent. Meyer drew on one of her own friendships to write the script (Deadline).
Stewart and Shawkat last shared the screen in the 2010 music biopic The Runaways, where Stewart played Joan Jett. Sixteen years on, they anchor a very different kind of two-hander.
The ensemble runs deep. LaKeith Stanfield, Kate McKinnon, Geena Davis, Tony Hale, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani and Zack Fox all appear. Rogen and Nanjiani pull double duty, voicing the leads' cats, Dio and GG — a detail that gives the comedy's feline roommates their own comic lane (Deadline).
Meyer shot the film on location in Los Angeles, leaning into the city's weed culture. Katie Hickman handled production design; Heidi Bivens, whose credits stretch from Spring Breakers to Euphoria, designed the costumes (Deadline).
Neon dropped the official trailer on 10 August across its Instagram and Facebook accounts, tagged with the tagline: "Two girls. One wrong move. Zero clue what to do" (Neon, via Instagram; Neon, via Facebook). The American Cinematheque hosted a Los Angeles premiere at the Los Feliz Theatre on 5 August, though that listing predates the wider rollout (American Cinematheque).
The film is rated R and runs 1 hour 40 minutes — a tight 100 minutes for a genre that sometimes sprawls. For Neon, which built its name on bold theatrical bets, an exclusive cinema run for a comedy with this cast signals confidence that audiences will show up before any streaming window opens.
Meyer, who married Stewart in 2023, makes her feature directing debut here. The personal texture — a friendship story rooted in her own life, set in a city she filmed on its own streets — gives the project a sharper edge than the standard studio comedy pipeline usually allows.
