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    Amy Poehler Leads A Girls' Trip With 'Some Of The Funniest People In The World'

    For Rachel Dratch's 50th birthday, Poehler gathered her friends and fellow SNL alumni for a vacation to the Napa Valley. For her directorial debut Wine Country, she basically did the same thing.
    by Rachel Martin May 24, 2019 3 minutes
    Amy Poehler (center) is the director and producer of <em>Wine Country</em>, and stars in the film along with friends Paula Pell (left) and Rachel Dratch.

    Amy Poehler's newest film is based on an actual girls' trip with her friends to California wine country. Except her friends — both in the movie and in real life — are fellow Saturday Night Live alumni like Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Paula Pell and Emily Spivey.

    "I'm lucky to have some of the funniest people in the world be my actual friends," Poehler says in an interview. "And so I tried to quickly exploit that as fast as I could."

    The real trip,does not.

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