Your Place or Mine (2023)

Your Place or Mine is a romance between a helpless forever bachelor and an overprotective single mother who just so happen to be best friends.

Written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna, known for Cruella and The Devil Wears Prada. The film has typical beats of a romantic comedy but without the comedy. These people have one trait and it's taken to extremes. The problem is that people aren't like that, and so they don't feel relatable. The man is closed off and very business savvy but not smart enough to hold down a woman. The woman is uptight and very intelligent but not smart enough to realize she's smothering her child. It felt like a cheap shot on character arcs.

Reese Withersoon plays the unlikable and over protective mother. She tries really hard to be cute and quirky, but in reality where this film doesn't take place, she would remain a single mother. Witherspoon hasn't been good since Wild.

Ashton Kutcher plays the business savvy playboy who make the cardinal mistake of dating a red flag woman with a child. They never describe how they became best friends or why they would even be friends in the first place but don't worry about that. Kutcher has been in a single good movies recently, this isn't one of them. If you haven't seen Vengence, you might want to check it out.

Your Place or Mine doesn't make a splash and movies are supposed to entertain. I just want my hour and fifty or so minutes back. Result D.

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