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Dec 15, 2015 3:00 PM UTC Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may play wildly different siblings in _Sisters_, out Dec. 18, but it’s screenwriter Paula Pell’s teenage diary that inspired their rapport. The movie, which revolves around a middle-aged rager Kate and Maura Ellis throw in their childhood home, is a role reversal from the _Saturday Night Live_ alumnae’s 2008 comedy _Baby Mama_. Here, Fey plays the irresponsible, inconsistently employed older sister to Poehler’s overachieving, designated-driver little sis. It’s a dynamic straight out of Pell’s adolescence, which found her firmly in the realm of the G-rated while her more sexually adventurous sister racked up diaries full of lurid tales. The adult Ellis sisters are in many ways the grown-up extensions of the young Pell sisters—though their last-hurrah party offers Poehler’s Maura the chance to compensate for the Saturday nights she spent as a teenager recalibrating the settings on her rock tumbler. In this exclusive featurette, Pell—who became friends with Fey and Poehler when they worked together on _SNL_, where she has served as a writer for two decades—reminisces about the prudish past that inspired the movie. Meanwhile, Fey, Poehler and costars Dianne Wiest, John Leguizamo, Bobby Moynihan and Samantha Bee try to keep it together while reading from the diary in which she confided. ### See the Best Impressions on Saturday Night Live  Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child in 1978. Edie Baskin—Warner Bros./Archive Photos/Getty Images  Dan Aykroyd as President Richard Nixon in 1978. Fred Hermansky—NBC/Getty Images  Dana Carvey as Ross Perot in 1993. Raymond Bonar—NBC/Getty Images  Norm MacDonald as David Letterman in 1997. Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty Images  From left: Molly Shannon as Monica Lewinsky and John Goodman as Linda Tripp in 1998. Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty Images  From left: Jimmy Fallon as Michael Stipe and Ana Gasteyer as Celine Dion in 1998. 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