Twenty-five years (!) after the release of the thoughtful yet hilarious teen ensemble piece, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, writer/director Amy Heckerling is back with I Could Never Be Your Woman, due to open early in November.

Michelle Pfeiffer is a divorced woman involved with a younger man (Paul Rudd). Saoirse Ronan (who snagged the lead in the upcoming film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones) is her teenage daughter, and gifted comedienne Tracy Ullman – last seen on the big screen in John Waters’ A Dirty Shame – controls their fates as Mother Nature. Fred Willard, Henry Winkler and Jon Lovitz appear as well. 

Pfeiffer called I Could Never Be Your Woman, her first onscreen work since 2002’s White Oleander, “like getting back on a bike. I was really rusty and that film helped me find my way back.” 

It’s been a long six years since Heckerling’s last film, Loser, which didn’t get a lot of love from the critics. But this latest sounds closer in quality to timeless Clueless than to, say, Look Who’s Talking Too.