{"id":550375,"date":"2023-02-10T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-your-place-or-mine-review-witherspoon-and-kutcher-in-rom-com-hell\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:00:12","slug":"watch-your-place-or-mine-review-witherspoon-and-kutcher-in-rom-com-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-your-place-or-mine-review-witherspoon-and-kutcher-in-rom-com-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Your Place or Mine&#8217; Review: Witherspoon and Kutcher in Rom-Com Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40a9a6b85b4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40a9a6b85b4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-your-place-or-mine-review-witherspoon-and-kutcher-in-rom-com-hell\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Your_Place_or_Mine_Review_Witherspoon_and_Kutcher_in_Rom-Com_Hell%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Your Place or Mine&#8217; Review: Witherspoon and Kutcher in Rom-Com Hell&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-your-place-or-mine-review-witherspoon-and-kutcher-in-rom-com-hell\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Your_Place_or_Mine_Review_Witherspoon_and_Kutcher_in_Rom-Com_Hell%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Your Place or Mine&#8217; Review: Witherspoon and Kutcher in Rom-Com Hell&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Your_Place_or_Mine_Review_Witherspoon_and_Kutcher_in_Rom-Com_Hell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Your Place or Mine&#8217; Review: Witherspoon and Kutcher in Rom-Com Hell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Your_Place_or_Mine_Review_Witherspoon_and_Kutcher_in_Rom-Com_Hell%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Your Place or Mine&#8217; Review: Witherspoon and Kutcher in Rom-Com Hell&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Reese Witherspoon, who first made a splash 30 years ago, has never lost a drop of her sunny smart charismatic movie-star spunk. Ashton Kutcher, in a career that kicked off in 1998, has had his ups and downs (sometimes in the same movie \u2014 how do you classify \u201cDude, Where\u2019s My Car?\u201d), but he has also grown as an actor, hitting a new peak as the discursive Southern dandy villain of last year\u2019s \u201cVengeance.\u201d These two are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> and seasoned, with a shine of glamour, so teaming them up for a middle-aged romantic comedy sounds perfectly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing. But what did either of them do to deserve \u201cYour Place or Mine\u201d? It\u2019s a singularly chintzy Netflix rom-com even if you already think of Netflix rom-coms as chintzy. (There are exceptions, of course, like \u201cThe Wrong Missy.\u201d) In fact, it\u2019s two bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> in one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Debbie (Witherspoon) and Peter (Kutcher) slept together once, back in 2003, and then became platonic best friends. She lives in L.A., he lives in New York, and they talk all the time and tell each other everything. They have no hang-ups, no jealousies, no secrets (or so it seems), no baggage. Peter, who once wanted to be a fiction writer, is now a fabulously successful businessman who carries on serial six-month relationships with younger women and describes himself as \u201ca lonely guy with outstanding hair.\u201d Debbie is a struggling single mom with a sweetly introverted and asthmatic 13-year-old son named Jack (Wesley Kimmel). She\u2019s decided to pursue a week-long accounting course in New York so that she can make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For the week, she and Peter will trade apartments. In other words, the film\u2019s writer-director, Aline Brosh McKenna (who\u2019s best known for scripting \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d), felt free to spin the premise of Nancy Meyers\u2019 \u201cThe Holiday\u201d as if that movie were an ancient classic. \u201cYour Place or Mine\u201d is \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u201d meets \u201cThe Holiday\u201d meets a dozen surrogate-dad-bonding-with-the-kid comedies meets a cookie cutter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This means that Peter will spend the entire week in L.A. playing Jack\u2019s dad he never had, coaxing the kid out of his shell, nudging him to try out for the hockey team (which his overprotective mother would never let him do). It means that Debbie, staying in Peter\u2019s insanely luxe steel-and-tile condo, with its panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge, discovers his secrets: that he displays his books by color (he\u2019s got a shelf of teal bindings), that he has never once used the kitchen (the designer drinking glasses still have sales stickers on them), and that he has written a novel he keeps stashed in a manila envelope in the middle rack of the oven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Most rom-coms have a love montage. \u201cYour Place or Mine\u201d has a Debbie-reading-Peter\u2019s-novel montage: She reads it at night, as she\u2019s dressing in the morning, and in the middle of her accounting class (where she can\u2019t stop grinning with delight at it). After finishing the last page, she actually puts her hand on her heart, shakes her head in awed disbelief and stage whispers <em>\u201cWow!\u201d <\/em>Is this a parody? Debbie then takes the manuscript to Theo (Jesse Williams), the head of a boutique book publisher she happens to have just met (that\u2019s how stuff happen in this movie: by convenience), and he compares the book to Jonathan Franzen. He\u2019s also a sexy catch the movie teases us into thinking might be Debbie\u2019s Mr. Right.  \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cYour Place or Mine\u201d is an outrageously benign movie, which may not sound like much of a criticism. But it\u2019s so benign it\u2019s innocuous. There\u2019s no tension, no comedy with any bite (except for the dry one-liners of Tig Notaro as the best friend who\u2019s there to give advice), no romantic friction. Jesse Williams, as the book-publishing maestro, is stranded without repartee, and Kutcher doesn\u2019t quite make Peter a character. He\u2019s polite, self-regarding, and slightly grandiose, as if he were running a seminar. As for Witherspoon, she\u2019s forced to play Debbie in a way that\u2019s so compulsively other-directed\u00a0that the actor\u2019s perkiness starts to seem like masochism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    So many things in the movie are just\u2026off in their overly telegraphed way. Like Jack the nerd, with his long hair parted down the middle, going right out onto the ice and scoring a goal. Or the way Theo\u2019s Duncan Press is located in a wooden-interior brownstone in Gramercy Park, with virtually no employees, like someone\u2019s 1978 fantasy of what an indie publishing house looks like. Or the nonstop needle drops of songs by the Cars, who Peter is obsessed with, because they\u2019re the trigger by which he remembers his late dad, but the movie so overstates this that they\u2019re literally the only band he listens to. Or Steve Zahn as a spaced-out-gardener named Zen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There is finally a moment of dramatic clash. It happens at an airport, on automatic walkways going in opposite directions. All the little plot-point secrets that the movie has already spelled out for us get spelled out even more by Debbie and Peter. And still, this romantic climax plays like an episode of couples\u2019 therapy. In what may be the film\u2019s most flabbergasting moment, Debbie and Theo have a conversation about how they both love Edith Wharton\u2019s \u201cThe House of Mirth,\u201d and they banter about the novel \u2014 arguably the most devastating ever written \u2014 as if it were a rom-com with a tearjerker ending. In \u201cYour Place or Mine,\u201d the whole world is a rom-com. 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