It’s a singularly chintzy Netflix rom-com even if you already think of Netflix rom-coms as chintzy.
Debbie and Peter 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 , 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 “a lonely guy with outstanding hair.
This means that Peter will spend the entire week in L.A. playing Jack’s dad he never had, coaxing the kid out of his shell, nudging him to try out for the hockey team . It means that Debbie, staying in Peter’s insanely luxe steel-and-tile condo, with its panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge, discovers his secrets: that he displays his books by color , that he has never once used the kitchen , and that he has written a novel he keeps stashed in a manila envelope in the middle rack of the oven.
“Your Place or Mine” is an outrageously benign movie, which may not sound like much of a criticism. But it’s so benign it’s innocuous. There’s no tension, no comedy with any bite , no romantic friction. Jesse Williams, as the book-publishing maestro, is stranded without repartee, and Kutcher doesn’t quite make Peter a character. He’s polite, self-regarding, and slightly grandiose, as if he were running a seminar.
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