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Posted: 2017-06-15T20:23:11Z | Updated: 2017-06-19T14:40:17Z

Ilana Glazer and Jillian Bell would like to address the old dinosaurs of Hollywood. Their new movie, Rough Night , is about rowdy women doing rowdy things something that shouldnt be a fresh phenomenon. Its a stopgap, though hardly a solution, in a genre of storytelling that has largely remained the purview of men.

Glazer, best known for Broad City, and Bell, the Workaholics star with standout roles in 22 Jump Street and The Night Before, know Rough Night will invite correlations to macho capers like The Hangover, Very Bad Things and Weekend at Bernies. Scarlett Johansson, Zo Kravitz, Glazer and Bell play college BFFs who reunite for a bachelorette weekend in Miami, where they are joined by the bride-to-bes eccentric Australian pal (Kate McKinnon). The groups booze- and cocaine-fueled hoopla takes a nosedive when they accidentally kill a stripper (Ryan Cooper) and attempt to dispose of the body. Its the sort of antics that men undertake on the big screen all the time.

We talked a lot about what people were going to compare us to, Glazer told HuffPost last weekend at the movies New York junket. Female-centric work is always more harshly compared and pigeonholed into some box when its described. (For the record, Glazer has proudly never seen The Hangover and has no desire to change that.)