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Salon
Lifestyle
Melanie McFarland

The decline of the Netflix rom-com

It was a simple ask, one silently pleaded to "Your Place or Mine" and its writer and director Aline Brosh McKenna not long after tiptoeing over the opening credits' threshold: Please don't ruin The Cars.

"Big shocker: you listen to The Cars in the morning," says Reese Witherspoon's Debbie, a single mother, says to her bestie Peter, a wealthy, single, and childless brand consultant played by Ashton Kutcher.

Since they chat often enough that we watch them blabbing while brushing their teeth, it might be worth wondering why she wouldn't already know that detail.

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