Netflix’s new film White Noise wants us to see the lighter side of a disaster.

In the first trailer for the movie, released Tuesday, a catastrophic train crash unleashes a cloud of deadly gas (called an “Airborne Toxic Event,” just like the band, which took its name from the source material.) This forces Jack Gladney (Adam Driver) and Babette (Greta Gerwig) and the four kids from their blended family to flee the suburbs as their town is evacuated.

Based on the award-winning book by Don DeLillo, White Noise was written and directed by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), the tone of the trailer isn’t dire or gloomy, though. The film’s official description promises it will be “at once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic. White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”

DeLillo’s book was once deemed unfilmable, and multiple studios and directors have tried to transform the nihilistic novel into a unifed viewing experience. Baumbach premiered the film on August 31st at the Venice Film Festival, making it the first-ever Netflix project to debut at the festival on opening night.

The trailer shows a movie that balances the grim reality with madcap humor, as the family gamely tries to dodge the numerous obstacles that they encounter. The trailer features an upbeat score by Danny Elfman and fun 1980s style, including the family’s sturdy Chevy station wagon, which gets put to the test thanks to Jack’s creative driving maneuvers.

The film also stars Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin and Jodie Turner-Smith. Gerwig and Baumbach have collaborated before: the two co-wrote the upcoming Barbie movie script for Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie.

You can see the film when it debuts in select theaters on November 25th. It will make its Netflix debut on December 30th.