Mod­el stu­dents raise a lit­tle hell in the Books­mart trailer

Olivia Wilde’s direc­to­r­i­al debut Books­mart, which pre­miered at South by South­west last night to a wave of glow­ing notices and now has a new­ly unveiled trail­er, is not your run-of-the-mill com­ing-of-age picture.

For starters, the com­e­dy trades the dudes that usu­al­ly share the bud­dy-bud­dy dynam­ic fuel­ing such a film for the duo of Kait­lyn Dev­er and Beanie Feld­stein (who movie lovers may rec­og­nize from Neigh­bors 2 or Lady Bird, the film this one is des­tined to be com­pared to for the rest of time).

They’re far from a cou­ple of fun-lov­ing slack­ers, too, hav­ing filled their high school careers with extracur­ric­u­lars and duti­ful study­ing to land an accep­tance let­ter to their dream col­leges. Imag­ine their hor­ror when they dis­cov­er that their peers who spent the past four years get­ting real­ly good at imbib­ing and sex also man­aged admis­sion to Ivy League — some sore­ly over­due debauch­ery is in order.

There’s one more wrin­kle to the for­mu­la; Dever’s over­achiev­ing Amy has the hots for a skater girl in their grade rather than the jock du jour. On the girls’ big night of mis­be­hav­ior, she’ll get in touch with her long-dor­mant libido while Feldstein’s fan­ny-pack-clad Mol­ly gets into trou­ble all her own.

Even with these devi­a­tions from for­mu­la, the trail­er hits all the beats that make movies in this sub­genre such reli­able crowd-pleasers: a bit of chem­i­cal­ly-altered fun, a wry run-in with the cops, and the oblig­a­tory heart-to-heart about how much these two friends mean to one anoth­er. A new gen­er­a­tion awaits its nose boop.

Books­mart comes to the­aters in the US on 24 May, and then the UK on 27 May.