February is a rough month. In many places, it's cold and gray. The holidays are few and far between and not the most thrilling of occasions (yay, Presidents' Day). This Valentine's Day season, the pickings were grim if you were in the mood for a 2023 romantic comedy. You had few new streaming films, including the Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher vehicle "Your Place or Mine" on Netflix and Prime Video's "Somebody I Used to Know," starring Alison Brie.
Neither film was perhaps the freshest of offerings, but one player connected the two like a life raft to brighter and better things: Zoë Chao. The actor and writer had small roles in both films, bringing energy and light to the projects, and delivering with grace some of the best, and often only, lines with humor.
