Your Place or Mine

Clearly the journey is always more important than the destination when it comes to romantic comedies, but there's barely a twist or detour or even a pothole ...

[Tig Notaro](/cast-and-crew/tig-notaro). (Seriously, name a Cars song, and it’s in this movie, including “ [Drive](/reviews/drive-2011)” while Peter is ... [Wesley Kimmel](/cast-and-crew/wesley-kimmel)). Split screens show that Debbie lives in a cluttered and colorful Los Angeles Craftsman while Peter lives in a sleek and spacious Brooklyn condo overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge. Even though they live across the country from each other, they still talk every day in some form, and while their conversations are breezy, they lack a believable spark. McKenna also wrote the far superior Oscar nominee “ [The Devil Wears Prada](/reviews/the-devil-wears-prada-2006).” Her latest film never comes close to reaching those heights in terms of sharp dialogue or richly drawn characters, but it also isn’t aiming that high.

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Let us know in the comments below! - Bye Bye Love – The Cars Below is the full soundtrack for all of the composed music and songs heard throughout Your Place or Mine.

Netflix's new modern-day rom-com "Your Place or Mine" was filmed in Los Angeles and New York City. It features a Dumbo apartment and a home in Echo Park.

“We wanted the New York section to be a really strong element because so much is about Debbie’s journey to New York and how those experiences reawaken her,” director of photography Florian Ballhaus said in the brief. Debbie’s house, found by location manager Veronique Vowell, is located in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood at the top of a 100-step hillside walkway. Special effects supervisor Ron Bolanowski and his team constructed the people mover from scratch. [New York City](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a36902116/what-to-do-in-new-york-city/) and [Los Angeles](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a36803484/what-to-do-in-los-angeles/) have long been the backdrops of [iconic rom-coms](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a41922230/falling-for-christmas-netflix-filming-locations/). Another pivotal location in the film is LAX. He added: “It’s a very hip and trendy place, which Peter would be attracted to.

Aline Brosh McKenna on making 'Your Place or Mine' starring Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher film and potential The Devil Wears Prada sequel.

In a funny way, I am that wide-open person that I was in my early 30s. Someone left a pizza in the oven for so long that mold was growing out of the box and onto the grills. I’m old enough that I saw the good old days, and I can tell you that there are upsides now. It was a great experience for the first thing I ever shot. So it’s about following the trends in the business and about figuring out who you could put on your dance card who wants to dance that same mambo. Everything has changed so rapidly that the business needs to adjust to where we are now. But I was talking to someone the other day and he said, “I see your work as coming-of-age movies for adults.” I asked him if I could tuck that in my pocket, because that is how I see it. In a 2019 interview, you praised the “sky’s the limit” approach of TV over the corporate nature of film. I had a writing partner, Jeff Kahn, and we had a pilot called Young Americans for Disney and Fox. They’re why I fell in love with the movies I fell in love with. But there are some where I just handed over the script, hoping for the best. The movies that made me want to be a writer were the ones starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck.

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.

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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.

Downtown Los Angeles' new Hotel Per La plays a New York club in the Netflix romantic comedy 'Your Place or Mine.'

Olive St.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/649+S+Olive+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90017/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80c2c7b4ffff3663:0x1428d28b6221cbc1?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9_L2qgIn9AhU3IEQIHdOuCyIQ8gF6BAgXEAI) in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. [Hotel Per La](https://www.hotelperla.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiA85efBhBbEiwAD7oLQIk6jfayCariSW0UXnzxwBwzn5zM-jlxHXLroisut65SuaYZlZR_NhoClmQQAvD_BwE), which masquerades as the Brownstone Club, the supposed Manhattan-area hotspot where Debbie hangs out several times in the film. And while the former’s building can actually be found in NYC – at [60 Water St.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/60+Water+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11201/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25a30c21090d5:0xc538b89fce16f8a8?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9mdKPzIv9AhVKOkQIHa3ZBNUQ8gF6BAghEAI) in Brooklyn, to be exact – L.A. [Mark Kennedy](https://apnews.com/article/your-place-or-mine-film-reviews-movies-ashton-kutcher-reese-witherspoon-01233de63fa7dfbbf65e05994501fdd3) of the Associated Press muses, with all the “pretty places” featured “you might initially mistake it as a rom-com for real estate.” Indeed, Peter’s fabulously modern digs and Debbie’s charming bungalow are nothing if not aspirational. Valentine’s Day has come early this year thanks to Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher’s new Netflix original “Your Place or Mine,” which sees the two rom-com staples pairing together for the first time ever onscreen as longtime best friends Debbie Dunn and Peter Coleman. does most of the heavy lifting as far as the locations are concerned, with such area sites as [John Muir Middle School](https://www.google.com/maps/place/John+Muir+Middle+School/@34.1947103,-118.3113599,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x57749a2ba912c0b?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiph-WnzIv9AhVUI0QIHRBjDm0Q_BJ6BQiKARAI) in Burbank, [Openaire restaurant](https://www.thelinehotel.com/los-angeles/restaurants-bars/openaire/) in Koreatown, [Emerson College Los Angeles](https://www.iamnotastalker.com/2018/01/12/emerson-college-los-angeles-from-scandal/) and the [oft-filmed eatery Jar](https://www.thejar.com/) making cameos throughout.

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.

Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher star as longtime friends Debbie and Peter, who, although they once had a late-night dalliance in bed, now live on opposite ...

But the film fizzles instead, with an astonishing lack of momentum throughout (fault: Bosch McKenna) and a dire lack of interest for and between the characters (fault: Witherspoon and ensemble). And just like that, we’ve got the world’s most non-threatening premise as these two opposites end up in a bit of a The Holiday-esque life-swap drama, living in each other’s spaces and meeting each other’s people while only staying in touch via FaceTime and text messages. Unfortunately, the plot gets a bit lost (aka boring) from there, as we fast forward a couple decades and meet these two at very different points in their lives. With different leads, perhaps there’s some charm to be had here, but Witherspoon and Kutcher have about as much chemistry as Biden and Putin in a diplomatic meeting. Written and directed by Aline Brosch McKenna (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” and writer on The Devil Wears Prada), Your Place or Mine makes a valiant effort to dance that fine line between the classic tropes of the genre—meet cutes, quirky best friends, etc.—and the break-neck pace of dating in the 2020s, where relationships often form, happen and end in the span of a few text messages. Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher star as longtime friends Debbie and Peter, who, although they once had a late-night dalliance in bed, now live on opposite sides of the country and are nothing more that platonic besties (yeah, right).