The creators of two award-winning films shot in Maine have taken their craft to a new level with the outrageous Hollywood comedy “Queenpins,” inspired by a true story. The film is scheduled for a limited theatrical opening on September 10 and will arrive digitally on the Paramount+ streaming platform on September 30 and later on Showtime.

Written and directed by the husband-and-wife team of Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, “Queenpins” is the story of a frustrated housewife (Connie, played by Kristen Bell of “The Good Place” and “Frozen”) and her best friend (Jo-Jo, played by Kirby Howell-Baptiste of “Killing Eve” and “Barry”) who together hatch a $40 million counterfeit coupon scheme.

The “Queenpins” cast includes Vince Vaughn (“Swingers,” “Wedding Crashers”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Richard Jewell,” “I, Tonya”) Joel McHale (“Community”), Stephen Root (“Office Space,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) and singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha in her first film role.

Gaudet, an Old Town native, and Pullapilly, are perhaps best known for 2009’s “The Way We Get By,” the powerfully moving documentary film about a group of tireless senior citizens who find fulfillment in their golden years when gathering at all hours to greet incoming and outgoing troops at Bangor International Airport. The film took its creators and cast to screenings around the country, including Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. and to Hollywood, where AARP named it the best documentary of the year. It has since screened numerous times on PBS.

Four years later, the filmmakers returned with “Beneath the Harvest Sky,” an indie drama largely shot in Van Buren, about friends whose lives are upended when one becomes embroiled in the illegal prescription drug trade along the Canadian border. The film starred Emory Cohen (“Brooklyn”) Callan McAuliffe (“The Great Gatsby”) and Sarah Sutherland (“Veep”) and won the Directors to Watch prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.