Spa Weekend brings Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau together for a girls' getaway comedy

Four of comedy's most familiar faces have arrived on screens together. Spa Weekend, released on Friday, 21 August, stars Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau as lifelong friends who escape their overloaded lives for a luxury wellness retreat. The film is rated R and runs a lean 1 hour 37 minutes.

Jon Lucas and Scott Moore wrote and directed the film. Black Bear Pictures, which hosts the film's official studio page, describes it as a comedy in the spirit of Bad Moms and The Hangover — Black Bear Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter's review, published 23 August, places it in the company of Bridesmaids, Girls Trip and Bad Moms (The Hollywood Reporter).

Mann plays Jane, an overworked Los Angeles lawyer who books a two-night stay at a wellness retreat seemingly around Malibu for her birthday. She invites her two childhood best friends: Sophie, played by Faris, who works under a demanding boss, and Coco, played by Buteau, who is going through a divorce. Fisher plays Mel, who receives a last-minute pity invite to the trip. All three leads are working mothers pulled in many directions by ailing parents, needy kids and demanding jobs.

The cast also includes Adam Demos, Dominic Ona-Ariki and Erika Heynatz. The production was shot in Australia, though the film avoids being too geographically specific about its setting.

Faris told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2025 that she loves acting with her co-stars Mann, Fisher and Buteau, calling the experience "a dream" (The Hollywood Reporter). The four leads walked the red carpet together at a premiere in Las Vegas on 7 August (The Hollywood Reporter), with an additional screening held in the Hamptons attended by the same quartet (The Hollywood Reporter).

The Hollywood Reporter's review lands on a blunt bottom line: "A likable cast let down by uninteresting hijinks." The verdict is somebody else's page. What matters here is the assembly — four bankable comic actors in a 97-minute package from the writers behind a franchise that reshaped the R-rated comedy lane, backed by a production company with a clear sense of where the film sits in the market.

For audiences, Spa Weekend offers a familiar premise executed by performers who have each carried comedies on their own. Whether that combination finds its audience will play out over the coming weeks.