It’s been a long and legally-winding road to release for Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut, but we now have the first trailer for The Deb. Have a look above.

Sunrise Films on Monday set an August 25 U.S. digital-release date for the musical comedy, which will debut in a day earlier in the UK via Vertigo Releasing. That news comes after the film’s original date was moved from April 9 amid a volcanic legal fight involving Wilson, the movie’s producers and star Charlottle MacInnes, who sued the rookie helmer for defamation.

The Deb follows Taylah Simpkins (Natalie Abbott), a lovable farm girl and high school outcast in small-town Australia who is convinced that the upcoming Debutante Ball — “the Deb” — is her one shot at reinventing herself. When her sharp-tongued city cousin Maeve (MacInnes) is exiled to Taylah’s drought-stricken town of Dunburn, she’s got one opinion about the ball: It’s a “heteronormative shit-show.” As the two cousins collide and reluctantly conspire, they discover that the path to the spotlight runs straight through the messy truth of who they really are.

Stevie Jean, Tara Morice, Steph Tisdell and Shane Jacobson also star, with Wilson in a supporting role that includes a scene where her character admonishes Taylah, “I’m sorry, you’re taking away valuable oxygen from my cigarette.”

Click here to read Deadline’s coverage of the continuing litigation surrounding The Deb.

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