Julia Roberts will star in and produce the family drama "The Friday Night Knitting Club" for Universal Pictures reports Variety.
Based on Kate Jacobs' upcoming novel, the story centers on a single mom who juggles the demands of running a Manhattan knitting store with raising her spunky teen daughter.
Her regular customers gather once a week to work on their latest projects and chat, but when a tragedy occurs, the customers realize they've created more than just a knitting club.
No writer or director is attached as yet.
