Sunny Sandler is a heartbroken yet hopeful high school theater kid in the moving first trailer of Don’t Say Good Luck.

Adam Sandler‘s younger daughter, 17, stars as Sophie Birenbaum, whose life gets turned upside down right as she lands the lead role in her high school’s play in Netflix’s Don’t Say Good Luck, out this August. The movie is produced by both Adam and his wife Jackie Sandler.

The trailer, released July 23, meets Sophie just before her big audition for her school play, for which she’s been practicing and rehearsing diligently while occasionally eyeing a boy of interest.

“Just say ‘break a leg!’ ” Sophie tells her mother (Melanie Lynskey) after she tries to wish her daughter good luck. “But I would be so sad if you broke your leg,” she protests.

Moments before her audition, Sophie gets a butt-dial call from her father (Max Greenfield), which connects her to a conversation she never wanted to hear: her mother’s cancer has come back. On stage, she fights back tears.

With this news comes several hard conversations and difficult emotions — and the moment in time is made all the more complicated when Sophie lands the lead role in the play, opposite the boy she’s been crushing on.

Director Julia Hart told Netflix’s Tudum that Sunny’s ability to tap into such a range of feelings and experiences made her perfect for the role. In fact, she was the only actress she had in mind to play Sophie.

“In a way that I haven’t really experienced with many actors, Sunny is able to bring any emotion, anytime,” Hart said. “It’s remarkable. Her ability to tell different stories in the same scene was truly amazing.”

With the stakes high and emotions higher, Sophie finds herself in a number of familiar teenage scenes — frustrated fights with her parents, sudden panic attacks, overwhelming tears and an incident of accidental drunkenness — as she navigates this pivotal moment for herself, her family and her future.

Don’t Say Good Luck will also star Jack Champion, Stephanie Beatriz, Scarlett Estevez, Emma McNulty, Elyse Bell, Bebe Neuwirth, Steve Buscemi and Jon Lovitz.