Golf with your friends split screen12/15/2023 Written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna, “Your Place or Mine” is cute and light from a creator known more for satires like “Devil Wears Prada” and “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” This Valentine’s Day, it hits the spot if you’re in the mood for pretty people acting insecure and clueless.Īt first, though, the film meanders with an alarming lack of urgency, as if Brosh McKenna was happy enough just filling the screen with her two beautiful leads and putting them in pretty places. They find themselves in each other’s homes, getting to know each others’ friends and generally shaking things up. “You need help and I’m coming,” he tells her. She offers another: “Uh, barf.”Ī last-minute emergency triggers the film’s central action: Witherspoon needs to fly to New York but her childcare main option flakes, so Kutcher’s character decides to go to Los Angeles as backup. Someone asks him the obvious question - “If you like each other so much, why aren’t you guys together?” - and there is no really good answer. It’s an intimate relationship over two decades as each supports and encourages the other. These two talk every day, forcing the filmmakers to spend a fortune on split screens. They hooked up 20 years ago but decided friendship was the better path. In this one, Witherspoon and Kutcher play opposites - he’s a rich consultant who lives in a chic but chilly New York apartment she’s an earthy and protective single mom to a 13-year-old boy in Los Angeles. Might they also fall in love? (Do many rom-coms not end that way?) The premise of this particular Netflix rom-com is two old friends switching homes for a week and snapping each other out of their ruts. They’re not in the same room until the last 12 minutes. If you decide to settle in and watch “Your Place or Mine” to see the sparks fly between Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, you’ll be initially disappointed.
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