Your Place or Mine

Your Place or Mine is a straight-to-Netflix romantic comedy that reunites two likeable performers, Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon.

Many of the love triangles, such as Debbie’s and her gardener (Steve Zahn) and Peter’s superficial hook-up interest Minka, are introduced as quickly as they’re forgotten and never spoken of again. This experimentation is foreshadowed by a bizarre opening scene set in 2003, where we’re privy to Peter and Debbie’s first and only one-night stand. Peter befriends a school worker and friend of Debbie’s in LA, while Debbie herself meets one of Peter’s former hookups, Minka (Zoë Chao), in New York, a rather unpleasant figure with almost no endearing qualities. Meanwhile, Debbie struggles to balance her writing course and her life as a single mother. I’m playing fast and loose with the word ‘reunite’ here because Kutcher and Witherspoon aren’t in the same room together for most of the movie. On paper, the film had the potential to be a charming and enjoyable romantic comedy, like No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits (starring Kutcher’s wife, Mila Kunis).

ICYMI, the new film stars Ashton Kutcher and the Legally Blonde star as two best friends, Debbie and Peter who are nothing alike. While Witherpsoon's character ...

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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.

The following stars appear in the Your Place or Mine cast. Reese Witherspoon as Debbie; Ashton Kutcher as Peter; Jesse Williams as Theo; Tig Notaro as Alicia ...

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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.

Where was Your Place or Mine on Netflix filmed? Discover the New York and LA filming locations for the new Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher movie.

The production ended up using a Hollywood stage that was originally built for The Three Stooges. The scene where Debbie and Peter reunite at LAX was also filmed on a sound stage, rather than at the actual airport. For the exterior of Debbie’s LA home, the production found a house in the neighborhood of Echo Park. For the exterior shots outside Peter’s New York City bachelor pad, the production found a street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo. But where was Your Place or Mine actually filmed? Written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna, Your Place or Mine stars Witherspoon as a neurotic single mother, Debbie, who needs to spend a week in New York City, away from her son, in order to finish up her business degree.

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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.

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The next morning, at the same time that Debbie arrives at the airport, Peter is there to catch his departing flight, and the two meet. Peter calls Debbie from the hospital and tells her about this, and the woman is very concerned and upset about the situation. This clearly announces to her that Peter has been in love with her, and she is overwhelmed by this because she, too, has always been in love with him, obviously. Peter is now a published writer, and Debbie is an editor at an indie publishing house, while Jack continues to play hockey regularly. She happens to meet with the editor of a recognized publishing house, Theo and gives him a copy of the novel. However, he is unable to go through with it with Debbie on his mind, and as he explains to their common friend Alicia, Peter has always been in love with his best friend. Or, it could also be that the novel was a projection of how he wanted his relationship with his father to be since, in reality, it was one of being abandoned and hurt at a young age. This seems to be the reason why he ended the possible romance between him and Debbie twenty years ago, as he did not want to get attached to the woman. Although the boy is allergic to basketball courts and to grass on football fields, he is very interested in playing hockey, but his mother does not allow him to do so as it involves risks and injuries. He directly tells Jack, though, that his father abandoned him and his mother when he was a young boy and then died in a road accident. Peter himself takes some time off his work and flies to Los Angeles to look after Jack so that Debbie can go to New York and attend her course. However, the two became close friends and continued to be best friends for the next twenty years.

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.