Bottoms Trivia | 35 facts about the teen sex comedy

“Bottoms” is an American teen sex comedy that was released in limited release and received rave reviews.

Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the film.

1. Bottoms is a 2023 American teen sex comedy film
2. It is directed by Emma Seligman
3. The film is co-written with Rachel Sennott
4. It stars Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Miles Fowler, Dagmara Domińczyk and Marshawn Lynch
5. The film follows two high school senior girls (Sennott and Edebiri) who set up a fight club as a way to hook up with cheerleaders
6. Bottoms premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2023
7. It was released in the United States on August 25, 2023 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
8. The film received positive reviews from critics
9. In April 2021 it was announced that Seligman and Sennott were working with Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions, with Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, and Alison Small producing for Brownstone, and Alana Mayo producing for Orion
10. It is the second collaboration between Seligman and Sennott after 2020’s Shiva Baby
11. Whilst promoting that film, Seligman described her next project as a “campy queer high school comedy in the vein of Wet Hot American Summer but more for a Gen-Z queer audience”
12. On April 2022, it was announced that Ayo Edebiri, Marshawn Lynch, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Miles Fowler, Dagmara Dominczyk and Punkie Johnson were added to the cast
13. Filming was scheduled to take place in New Orleans between April 18 and May 27, 2022
14. On September 12, 2022 it was confirmed by The New York Times that filming had wrapped
15. Sennott described the film as “two girls in a classic American football town who start a fight club under the guise of female empowerment, but it’s actually so they can have sex with cheerleaders”
16. Eunice Jera Lee served as costume designer on the film
17. She took inspiration from Grease (1978), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Heathers (1988), Jawbreaker (1999), and Bring It On (2000)
18. The soundtrack for the film was released in conjunction with the film’s limited theatrical premiere on August 25, 2023
19. It was released by Milan Records
20. The album consisted of 27 tracks from the film’s score
21. They were composed in an collaborative effort between singer-songwriter Charli XCX and composer Leo Birenberg
22. Bottoms further marked the former’s feature film scoring debut
23. The soundtrack is further produced by George Daniel from The 1975 and A. G. Cook
24. They also composed additional music with Ramiro Rodriguez Zamarripa
25. As of August 28, 2023, Bottoms has grossed $533,978 in the United States and Canada
26. The film opened in limited release at ten theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin
27. And grossed $516,254
28. For a per-theater average of $51,625
29. This was the highest per-screen average on ten or more screens since Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
30. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 96% rating
31. Based on 91 critics’ reviews
32. With an average rating of 8.0/10
33. The website’s consensus reads: “Propulsive and over-the-top, Bottoms is an instant high school comedy classic that feels both current and nostalgic”
34. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100
35. Based on 25 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”