In time for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, a romantic comedy has arrived on Netflix where the biggest draw is who stars in it. Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon (also a producer of the film) play two best friends who have known each other for decades and who live on opposite coasts of the United States. However, after years of long distance talks, will they finally meet face to face and discover that there is much more in their hearts than just friendship? Find out in the recently released movie your house or mine.
What is it about your house or mine?
An official synopsis for the film dictates the following:
“Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) and Peter (Ashton Kutcher) are very good friends despite being so different: she longs for the routine with her son in Los Angeles, while he relishes the changes in New York. But when they swap their homes—and their lives—for a week, they discover that what they want might not be what they really need.
In your house or mine, Angelina Debbie must travel to New York to attend classes that could open the doors of a profitable professional future, while New Yorker Peter —her best friend for the last twenty years— agrees to give her his apartment in the big city and move temporarily to Los Angeles to take care of Debbie’s child. And both living single in their forties, they may begin to discover that they are destined to be closer to each other. However, in this romantic comedy, there is more than one potential love story, with the protagonist having three suitors behind her.
“I wanted to show that when you fall in love and you’re not 21, [en el caso de Debbie] she has more of a romantic history and there are other people in her life,” director Aline Brosh McKenna told a news conference. “Sometimes in romantic comedies, the female lead is incredibly chaste, to a point where she seems unrealistic. So it was fun to give him different love interests to play with.”
The cast
The movie your house or mine entails the first time that Reese witherspoon (legally blonde, Big Little Lies) and Ashton Kutcher (Friends with benefits, That ’70s Show) star in the same project. At a press conference, the Oscar-winning actress revealed that before this production, they didn’t really know each other and had only met at a party years ago.
“About a month before [de la filmación] I was like, ‘I don’t know this guy and we’re supposed to be best friends for 20 years. So we started sending each other videos every day,” Witherspoon said of the way they worked out their chemistry and character dynamics.
The long-distance relationship that Debbie and Peter have in the film came to reflect the way the two actors interact in real life.
“We’d send each other videos back and forth like, ‘How’s your day going? What’s happening? What’s wrong with you? What are you afraid of?’” Kutcher said. «When we started shooting, we were already used to communicating like this. So it felt very natural that [nuestros personajes en la película] They communicated that way.”
The cast of your house or mine complement it Zoe Chao (the year of my graduation), Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy), wesley kimmel (Boba Fett’s book), Steve Zahn (The White Lotus) and Tig Notaro (the army of the dead), among others.
About the director
your house or mine is written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna, this being his debut in the director’s chair. Previously, in the role of screenwriter, she was responsible for other titles in the comic genre such as 27 weddings (2008) with Katherine Heigl and a glorious awakening (2010) with Rachel McAdams, in addition to helping to conceive the plot of cruella (2021) with Emma Stone.
On the other hand, McKenna is best remembered for lending her pen to The Devil Wears Prada (2006). This iconic film about the world of fashion, based on the book The Devil Wears Prada and starring Anne Hathaway and Mery Streep, garnered Best Adapted Screenplay nominations at the BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Awards.
About your house or minethe fiftieth-year-old filmmaker also co-wrote the original song “Embers” which is part of his soundtrack and which speaks of “a relationship that is not on fire at the time, but still exists and just needs to be stoked”, in the words of McKenna.
“I wanted to make a romantic comedy for people who have accumulated a lot of life experience,” he added. “It was an idea that I had for a long time. And when it finally blossomed, it felt very personal.”
When it premieres your house or mine?
your house or minethe first romantic comedy in which Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher share credits, is now available on the Netflix catalog from February 10, 2023.
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Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.