“When you’re making an independent film, you have to seize every opportunity in front of you.”

Delaney Buffett

The daughter of the “Margaritaville” singer honors her late father with her new film, Adult Best Friends

By Paulina Prosnitz

Delaney Buffett found the inspiration for her Tribeca Film Festival–featured Adult Best Friends in an unlikely place: midway through her toast at the wedding of her childhood best friend, Katie Corwin. Buffett began to joke about being “replaced” by Corwin’s now husband, before having the split-second realization that it wasn’t a joke at all.

While the idea for the film came from Corwin, its creation was driven by a second figure in her life: her father, Jimmy Buffett, who died in September 2023, just one month after Adult Best Friends wrapped filming. “It was for him and because of him,” says Delaney Buffett, 32. “I wanted to make him proud, and I wanted to apply that same work ethic that he had applied to give me the life that I have.”