Ashton Kutcher

Scheduled to spend a week in New York getting a degree that will advance her career, Debbie abruptly loses her babysitting, at which point Peter gallantly steps ...

Brosh McKenna clearly knows her way around the genre (her writing credits also include “27 Dresses”), as do her stars. But those awkward red-carpet photos weren’t the only part of this exercise that didn’t quite work, whatever place one happens to watch it. Despite a fleeting history described as a “hookup,” Kutcher’s Peter and Witherspoon’s Debbie have been platonic friends for 20 years. While that has worked out before (think “Sleepless in Seattle”), it doesn’t here, in a Netflix movie that proves roughly as generic as its title. Then again, the movie is as much about real estate as romance, as well as the familiar question of paths taken and not chosen. Written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” renown (who also produced along with, among others, Witherspoon and Jason Bateman), “Your Place” hinges on Peter and Debbie learning to appreciate each other’s differences – she’s a stickler for routine, while he’s free-spirited, or “irresponsible” in her eyes – through their house-swap experiences.

Everything about Your Place or Mine is as unimaginative and hackneyed as its corny title. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher in lead roles, ...

And of course, Zoë Chao, who gives a sparkling performance as Minka, Peter’s high-society ex, who for some curious reason, gets deeply invested in Debbie’s state of affairs. From the love story to the sterility of Peter’s posh Manhattan apartment and the way Debbie’s week pans out in NYC, all of it feels staged and forced. If only it was half as beautiful or awe-inspiring in spite of the monotony. Witherspoon plays Debbie, a single mom in Los Angeles obsessed with hyper-parenting her 13-year-old son Jack (Wesley Kimmel). Everything about Your Place or Mine is as unimaginative and hackneyed as its corny title. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher in lead roles, it is available for streaming on Netflix.

If you decide to watch "Your Place or Mine" to see the sparks fly between Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, you'll be initially disappointed.

-- a scene when Witherspoon and Kutcher are in the same ZIP code and a nice flipping of the traditional rom-com airport scene on its head. The film allows Witherspoon and Kutcher to show off their naturally funny sides, especially when they're fishes out of water. She also flirts with a hunky publisher -- Jesse Williams, smoldering -- and breaks all logic when she doesn't immediately fall into the cool, sensual piercing blue of his eyes and never wants to leave ... On the other coast, Witherspoon finds an old manuscript her best friend has hidden from her and decides she must try to get it published. Kutcher tries to loosen up his best friend's son -- snack on junk food, letting him watch scary movies and allowing him to try out for the hockey team, all things forbidden when mom's around. This Valentine's Day, it hits the spot if you're in the mood for pretty people acting insecure and clueless.

Starring alongside Reese Witherspoon in new Netflix rom-com Your Place Or Mine, the actor, 45, at one point had to try and revert back to his 20-year-old ...

Back then: Ashton was 20 years old in 1998, at which time he launched his career as a model. Role: As the characters looked back on their younger selves to reminisce on how their relationship has developed to the present day, Ashton says he had to take on a mini-transformation to try and make himself look 25 years younger God, I used to have abs when I was 20! He signed with Next modeling agency in New York and went on to feature in campaigns for Calvin Klein and Abercrombie and Fitch (pictured age 20 in a shoot for the brand) 'I actually need to mow this thing down and clean it up - and I'm like dude.. Youthful: Ashton Kutcher, 45, has revealed he had to 'mow down' his chest hair and start doing sit-ups for a throwback sequence in his new film Your Place Or Mine to try and revert back to his 20-year-old self

Fans of The Holiday will find familiarity in the premise of Netflix's Your Place or Mine. The new movie follows best friends Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) and ...

Ashton Kutcher is well aware he doesn't look like he did when he was 20. The actor has been busy promoting his new flick "Your Place or Mine" alongside ...

When they swap houses and lives for a week they discover what they think they want might not be what they really need.” A synopsis for the showbiz pair’s new film reads, “Debbie and Peter are best friends and total opposites. “I actually need to mow this thing down and clean it up – and I’m like doing sit-ups!

Reese Witherspoon is a certified book lover, with a wildly popular book club, and yet her Your Place Or Mine co-star Ashton Kutcher, beat her in that ...

[friends-to-lovers romantic comedy](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/the-10-best-friends-to-lovers-romantic-comedies-including-13-going-on-30), Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon play longtime best friends who live on opposite sides of the United States, NYC and Los Angeles respectively, but keep in touch all the time over video. During Debbie’s New York adventures, she stumbles on a hero of hers in the book publishing industry (played by Jesse Williams), whilst Peter enjoys quality time with her son in Los Angeles. Since the actor’s latest role is someone who deeply loves reading, the filmmaker gave the actor a ton of books to read ahead of the role. So it’s not exactly a stretch for Witherspoon to play a major book lover in [her latest romantic comedy, Netflix’s Your Place Or Mine](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/your-place-or-mine-quick-things-we-know-about-netflixs-reese-witherspoon-and-ashton-kutcher-rom-com). [Aline Brosh McKenna](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112459/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1), who famously penned beloved movies like The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses. [producer who adapts popular books](https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/how-reese-witherspoon-brought-female-inclusion-behind-the-scenes-of-where-the-crawdads-sing) and starting her own incredibly successful and respected book club.

This week's Cringe Mode is Freaky Friday, featuring Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis (24:06). And why does everyone who posts a picture with Taylor Swift use the ...

And why does everyone who posts a picture with Taylor Swift use the same filter (41:12)? This week’s Cringe Mode is Freaky Friday, featuring Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis (24:06). The chemistry between Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon during the press tour for their new movie was so bland that Mila Kunis had to get involved (13:44).

The wise words of Ashton Kutcher, "Keep your hearts open."

And be sure to watch him in Your Place or Mine, which starts streaming on Netflix today! All in all, it was a fun and very informative time! So, in honor of his new Netflix rom-com Your Place or Mine, Ashton — or should I say "Docter" Kutcher — was delighted to sit down with BuzzFeed and offer some wisdom.

In preparation for playing two book lovers in 'Your Place or Mine,' Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon were given reading assignments.

And sometimes that brings you to realizing you shouldn't be a people pleaser, which is 27 Dresses. That idea that it's people going through something and sometimes that brings you to a zoo. We didn't have a lot of runway between the walkway and the end of the stage. In terms of rediscovering each other, the ember is also this dream of what they were going to be when they first met when they were in their 20s. But I think all of the movies, including Prada and Crazy Ex, always come down to the human emotion and what is underneath that. What you choose to do when you first enter the world is probably the purest form of your aspiration. Because it's about adults, because it's grown up, because it has scale, it felt really right for it to be the first movie I directed. ALINE BROSH MCKENNA: I went to New York to work on a movie and I needed a place to stay that was relatively inexpensive. Adds McKenna to EW: "I didn't know that Ashton would read all of the books I gave him. The other great thing about having been a showrunner was the years that I spent working so closely with actors and having my creative partner being an actor. One of them had an inscription to someone named Peter, so I decided that was Peter's book that she had kept when he moved." "With Reese, I gave her a bunch of books that I felt like Debbie had collected over the years — some first editions, some beat-up paperbacks.

(Bloomberg) -- Actor Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures is discussing raising a fund dedicated to artificial intelligence investments, according to a person ...

Built on '00s rom-com nostalgia, Your Place or Mine unites Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon for a film that only makes you think of better movies.

His idiosyncratic character brings a level of messy zaniness to the table, one that often appears in the early ‘00s film that Your Place or Mine wants so desperately to be, and one reminding us yet again of everything that Your Place or Mine is not. (I’m still patiently waiting for her to be cast as a rom-com lead.) Steve Zahn is also welcome as Debbie’s quirky neighbor who spends his days tending to her garden just for fun. (And what a shame coming from the writer of the superb The Devil Wears Prada, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and 27 Dresses!) Referencing the golden age of rom-coms in a time when the genre is unmistakably suffering—verging on obsolete—is already a big gamble, and immediately juxtaposing Your Place or Mine with much better films gives it an unfair disadvantage right out of the gate. Written and directed by The Devil Wears Prada’s Aline Brosh McKenna, Your Place or Mine is well aware of this fact, and even goes so far as to overlay its first scene, which takes place in 2003, with cheeky, cutesy text bubbles labeling things that place the characters in this faraway time (a wallet-chain, flat-ironed hair). Witherspoon is magnetic as Debbie, remaining consistently funny and charming throughout, despite being confined to a one-dimensional helicopter mom trope.

Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher and 'Your Place or Mine' director Aline Brosh McKenna discuss rom-com nostalgia and how the movie came to be.

“Coming out of the pandemic, when I read the script, like this is the movie I wanted to see,” Kutcher says. “I mean, there was a lot of romantic idealization — I don’t really feel like they got the chance to know each other. “I was like, ‘Woah!’ Because I thought that film was extraordinary, and that you were extraordinary in it. That much I can tell you.” “Over the years, I feel like it’s been hard — audiences are a little bit more cynical about [rom-coms],” she explains. Kutcher adds, “You get this sense that these two people have to be together and you become invested in their relationship and some functional imperfection keeps them apart. “I remember seeing you in ‘Punk’d,’ and I thought it was really funny. Luckily, “Your Place or Mine” writer and director Aline Brosh McKenna came into the picture to finally get them together. And then I loved ‘Butterfly Effect.’ I loved ‘No Strings Attached’ with Natalie,” Witherspoon says, turning to Kutcher to ask, “Did you do a movie where you were in a military uniform?” Based on Brosh McKenna’s real-life experience, “Your Place or Mine” follows Debbie (Witherspoon) and Peter (Kutcher), who are best friends and total opposites. “I think the first thing I saw you in was ‘Election,'” Kutcher adds. “He was carrying a little cooler,” Witherspoon recalls.

Ashton Kutcher got candid about the grooming and fitness he had to do to look 20 in his latest film.

Aline Brosh McKenna's ('The Devil Wears Prada') cross-country Netflix romcom shouldn't work given the leads' lack of sparks, yet has a strange charm.

Or if the characters were older — maybe that’d make it easier to buy into the idea that these two people are already so sure of what they want out of life, so experienced in the ritual of being let down by more titillating flings and affairs, that settling down with someone familiar might make noble sense. And Your Place or Mine is worth watching for that alone, this iron-willed commitment to the premise in full defiance of what the characters are actually giving us. Here she is, look at her go: showing up to her seminar with a backpack and new school supplies, practically huffing the scent of a newly-sharpened pencil, being all wide-eyed and adorably game for the joys of life, being completely absent of any kind of cynicism. When she and Williams’s publisher get to prattle their way through a handful of cute scenes, the movie finally lands on something: a counterargument. [romance](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/romance/) to watch! And then the backstories kick in and Your Place or Mine, which runs nearly two hours, gets distracted, pretending that it’s as worthwhile to watch Debbie chatting it up with Peter’s fab, New Yorkey ex as it is watching Peter try to play dad to Debbie’s perfectly well-adjusted teen. Your Place or Mine offers us a full-blown case for reverting back to the anodyne safety and security of the familiar, no matter the substantial downsides. When Your Place or Mine opens, Debbie and Peter get the split-screened, made-for-each-other visual gags familiar from old Doris Day and Rock Hudson comedies, those cutely twinned shots of each of them lying in bed reading at the same time, bathing at the same time, ritualistically in sync in ways neither of them fully realizes. Played, respectively, by [Reese Witherspoon](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/kacey-musgraves-reese-witherspoon-talk-struggles-for-women-in-country-music-713278/) and [Ashton Kutcher](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/a-closer-look-at-ashton-kutcher-69773/), Debbie and Peter are long-time friends. Debbie’s headed to New York for a week-long seminar (she’s trying to abandon her love of the literary arts in favor of a more practical job that pays more), and it’s supposed to be an occasion for her and her bestie to reunite. Each of these people (one more than the other, owing to a certain unevenness at the heart of the movie) has to choose between the genuine but uncertain chemistry that enters their lives — a real, tactile, tingly sexual spark — or the chance to return to their shared, multi-decade past, to the person that they know will never leave them because they’ve always already been there. He lives in a steely Brooklyn apartment with a view of Manhattan that’s furnished with a stove he’s never used, cutlery that’s never been opened, and a despairing lack of tchotchkes — there is not so much as a photo of himself or anyone he loves in plain sight.

Starring in Your Place or Mine came with a bunch of reading materials for Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon.

She said, "I gave Ashton books that I thought Peter would have and would have read and have a point of view on." I'm running a company, and I have a full-time other job. I called her, and I said, 'I have three children. I read all of them. He said, "I'm not a very big fiction reader, I don't read a lot of fiction. She continued, "With Reese, I gave her a bunch of books that I felt like Debbie had collected over the years — some first editions, some beat-up paperbacks.

He thinks about it “morning, noon, and night.” It's hot; it's heavy. It has its own keyboard section and even two lead vocalists. Some say it ended Television ...

“I found that when I mention the Cars to people it makes them happy,” she adds, “both to think about them and to actually hear the chords.” “I believe my first cut has 14 Cars songs, but then I had to whittle them down a bit.” “I was looking for a band that a guy at that age would be super-into and listen to on a loop. They work really great as needle-drops and as a score,” she explains. So I was looking for a band I felt would show his emotional and cerebral qualities, and I realized that’s what the Cars give you.” “I wanted to find a voice for him, or a place where he lets his hair down,” she says.

Ashton Kutcher is charming in Netflix's Your Place or Mine, a welcome return for the actor who hasn't had a leading role since 'Jobs' in 2013.

But it’s Kutcher who pulls off this declaration of love beautifully, injecting just the right amount of certainty (he knows how he feels) and fear (he doesn’t know how Debbie will react) into his voice. It’s a shame Kutcher and Witherspoon don’t share more scenes together, because when they finally reunite at the LAX airport, Kutcher is in top form when it comes time for his big romantic declaration. And though they spend the week on opposite sides of the country, they also spend it falling in love with each other. (Which, incidentally, is the better of the two movies with the same premise released in the same year, the other being Friends With Benefits, starring Kutcher’s IRL wife, Mila Kunis.) That only adds to the appeal. [Your Place or Mine](https://decider.com/movie/your-place-or-mine/), to the surge of That ’70s Show nostalgia (the latter thanks to Netflix’s sequel series [That ’90s Show](https://decider.com/show/that-90s-show)), Ashton Kutcher is having a moment. And though you might not realize it from his perpetual babyface, it’s been nearly ten years since audiences last saw Kutcher in a movie as a leading man, in the 2013 Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs.

Ashton Kutcher say his rare inflammatory disease is a reason his red carpet photos may look awkward.

“She even emailed us last night,” Witherspoon said of Kunis. “If I stand next to her, I put my hands in my pockets, so there’s no chance that can be the rumor. “If I put my arm around her and was like, all friendly with her, I’d be having an affair with her. If blood flow is restricted, it can result in organ and tissue damage.” Making sure every photographer gets their shot “for like 20 minutes,” Kutcher continued, “Got it? “I don’t know who’s yelling my name, but I know there’s a lot of people yelling, going, ‘Reese, Ashton, over here, over here!

Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon gets candid about their lives from meeting for first time to shooting Your Place or Mine.

[Your Place or Mine](https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/your-place-or-mine-trailer-5-things-to-look-forward-to-in-reese-witherspoon-ashton-kutchers-netflix-rom-com-1206211), the actor thought it was exactly the kind of movie that he wanted to see. While Kutcher said he was a big fan of Reese’s movies such as [Legally Blonde](https://www.pinkvilla.com/topic/legally-blonde) and Election. While Witherspoon mentioned that one of great things about this movie was that it was grounded in reality. [No Strings Attached](https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/ashton-kutcher-mila-kunis-anniversary-when-actress-opened-about-their-meant-be-love-story-1155618), Butterfly Effect and thought he was incredibly handsome in The Guardian. The actor mentioned that he might be nervous at that time that Witherspoon whom he admired so much was acknowledging him. Kutcher mentioned in an interview that he always wanted to make a rom-com with Witherspoon.

In an interview alongside co-star Reese Witherspoon for UK breakfast show "Lorraine," the pair, who play opposite one another in the movie, recalled a sequence ...

“She texted Reese and I together,” Kutcher said of Kunis. “If I stand next to her, I put my hands in my pockets, so there’s no chance that can be the rumor. “She even emailed us last night,” Witherspoon said. “All right, here’s the thing: If I put my arm around her and was like, all friendly with her, I’d be having an affair with her. 'And I’m like doing sit-ups, and I’m like, 'God, I used to have abs when I was 20! "So here’s the crazy thing, before we shot the sequence where I was 20, I was like, 'I didn’t have this much chest hair when I was 20,' and I’m like, 'I actually need to mow this thing down a little bit and like clean it up,'" he said, laughing.

Co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher recently went viral for their red carpet pictures, and Kutcher has a take.

As the actor has recently shared, there was a time when he [thought his acting career might be over](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/ashton-kutcher-talks-thinking-his-acting-career-was-over-after-medical-episode-and-why-he-hates-when-other-celebs-say-theyre-retired), but he was able to overcome it and seems to be doing well now. [Your Place Or Mine, which has received mixed reviews](https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/your-place-or-mine-reviews-are-here-and-critics-are-split-over-reese-witherspoon-and-ashton-kutchers-chemistry-in-the-netflix-rom-com) from critics and audiences, is now streamable using a [Netflix subscription](https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/netflix-subscription-the-plans-the-price-and-whats-included). [Chicks In The Office](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1640737&xcust=cinemablend_us_1637191175187421400&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fashton-kutcher-interview%2Fid1412142989%3Fi%3D1000598580842&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cinemablend.com%2Fstreaming-news%2Fthe-internet-roasted-ashton-kutcher-for-those-awkward-red-carpet-photos-with-reese-witherspoon-but-he-says-theres-a-totally-reasonable-explanation-why-it-happened) (opens in new tab) podcast and got honest about why he didn’t look like he was having the time of his life in those recent press photos alongside his co-star. Obviously, celebrities find themselves on red carpets all the time and often just have to deal with the chaotic atmosphere for a good photo, but the That '70s Show alum’s answer speaks to how odd it inherently is. As the star pointed out, a red carpet is not exactly the most calming setting in which to smile wide for a photo. But the on-screen couple didn’t exactly sell their chemistry in real life when they posed for red carpet photos that the Internet found to be super awkward.