The Napa Boys is a 2025 American comedy film directed by Nick Corirossi and co-written by Corirossi and Armen Weitzman, who also star. The film premiered in the Midnight Madness section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures later acquired U.S. distribution rights.
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Plot
Presented as The Napa Boys 4: The Sommelier's Amulet, the film follows a trio of wine-obsessed characters who go on an adventure through California's wine country. They start with a high-stakes wine competition, and a series of escalating absurd set-pieces.
Cast
Armen Weitzman as Miles Jr.
Nick Corirossi as Jack Jr.
Sarah Ramos as Puck
Jamar Malachi Neighbors as Stiffler's Brother
Mike Mitchell as Mitch Mitchellson
Nelson Franklin as Kevin
Chloe Cherry as Kim
Vanessa Lee Chester as Loretta
Paul Rust as Squirm
David Wain as Wilbur Winejudge
Beth Dover as Trixie
Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith as Jay and Silent Bob
DJ Qualls as The Sommelier
Ivy Wolk as Prancer
Chris Aquilino as John
Natasha Behnam as Skyler
Ray Wise as Officer Toland
Mike Hanford as Officer Roland
Ryan Perez as The Mayor of Napa
Natasha Leggero as Annie
Riki Lindhome as Monica
Steve Agee as Ethan Nerdone
Jack Allison as Sam Fantwo
Harley Quinn Smith as Harper
Nik Dodani as Gracer
Production
Corirossi and Weitzman developed the film as a franchise spoof similar to Sideways with the gross-out sensibility of early-2000s ensemble comedies like American Pie or Wet Hot American Summer. The filmmakers framed the movie as the "fourth entry" in a fictional franchise, complete with in-universe mythology and recurring characters.
Release
The film premiered on September 12, 2025, in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness program. Following early festival screenings, Magnolia Pictures acquired U.S. distribution rights, It was released on February 27, 2026.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 21 critics' reviews are positive, with critics divided between praising the film's boldness and criticizing its deliberately disorienting tone.
RogerEbert.com described the film as potentially challenging to viewers, as it throws them into the "deep end of a franchise that never existed until this installment." Variety highlighted the film's blend of wine-country parody and absurdist raunch comedy, calling it a fusion of Sideways and American Pie. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that some of the film's more extreme early gross-out sequences prompted walk-outs during its TIFF screening. Other critics noted the intentionally nonsensical narrative structure and the film's barrage of inside-joke-driven humour.