Your Place or Mine
★★ ½
Taking two likable actors and creating romantic chemistry between the two without being in the same physical space as one another is a bold move for a rom-com. Yes, it's been done well before like in Sleepless in Seattle, but in Your Place or Mine, the chemistry is supposed to lie in a twenty-year "friendship" in where we get no glimpse.
There are so, so many things that don't make sense in this film. I was able to overlook a lot of it during the viewing of the film. I found the story relaxing to watch, but when it was over, I couldn't help but get flooded with the unexplainable nuances of the character's actions. Aline Brosh McKenna has been a rom-com scribe for a long time and the back-and-forth dialogue is where this movie is at its best. But the characters are completely cardboard and express emotional complexities that are painted over with good looks and expensive amenities.
This is McKenna's directoral debut and I couldn't help but think that this was a script that she's had in a drawer for a long-time and was picked up because Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher could film their scenes without their individual schedules conflicting. It's a ball of cuteness that is passable in the moment, but is completely forgettable after the initial viewing.
