Amy Schumer is turning her attention to the complicated, awkward and potentially hilarious world of divorce with a new comedy that puts an unexpectedly friendly breakup at the center of the story.
The comedian and actor will star in and produce Best Divorce Ever, playing Clarissa, a woman who agrees with her husband Franklin that their marriage should come to an end after two decades together.
There is just one catch: they are determined to be remarkably civilized about the whole thing.
Instead of approaching their separation as a war, Clarissa and Franklin decide to celebrate their new chapter with an “Untying the Knot” party. Their plan is to leave the marriage behind gracefully and move into their new lives without the bitterness commonly associated with divorce.
Naturally, things do not remain quite that simple.
As the former couple begins navigating life apart, uncomfortable dates, questions from their children and their own attempts at a carefully managed separation start putting the friendly arrangement under pressure. What looked straightforward on paper quickly becomes a much more complicated exercise in redefining a family.
Sean Mullin is writing and directing the comedy, which takes inspiration from his own experience with an amicable divorce. The story is designed to explore whether the end of a marriage necessarily needs to be treated as a failure or an all-out battle between two people who once built a life together.
For Schumer, the subject arrives at a particularly relevant moment. She recently ended her seven-year marriage to Chris Fischer. The former couple, who share a son, have stressed the importance of maintaining love and respect within their family despite their separation.
Schumer is also serving as a producer on the project, giving her a role behind the camera as well as in front of it.
Best Divorce Ever follows her appearance in the 2025 comedy Kinda Pregnant and returns Schumer to territory that has long fueled her work: relationships, uncomfortable truths and the considerable gap between how adults think life should work and how it actually unfolds.
With a premise built around two people trying almost suspiciously hard to have a healthy breakup, Best Divorce Ever has plenty of room to discover that even the friendliest divorce can come with complications.
