A rom-com co-starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Sounds at least OK, doesn't it?
Well, it may have been, had Aline Brosh McKenna — the writer-director of "Your Place or Mine," which debuts on Netflix this week, thus arriving in plenty of time for Valentine's Day — actually put them together for a meaningful amount of the flick.
After watching Witherspoon's Debbie and Kutcher's Peter hook up two decades earlier — with Brosh McKenna ("The Devil Wears Prada," "27 Dresses") playfully walking us through all the visual indications that this is, in fact, taking place in 2003 — we see the pair in 2023 talking as they face each other in bed. This present-day scene is a microcosm of the movie, as they aren't actually in bed together but instead chatting on the phone, as they do daily, from separate beds in Los Angeles (Debbie) and New York (Peter).
