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Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Jesse Williams, Zoë Chao, Wesley Kimmel, Griffin Matthews, Rachel Bloom, Shiri Appleby, Vella Lovell, Steve Zahn, Tig Notaro
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story:
Netflix romantic comedy written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna. Your Place or Mine (2023) centers on best friends Debbie and Peter (Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher), who are total opposites. She craves routine with her son in LA, but he thrives on change in NY. When they swap houses and lives for a week they discover what they think they want might not be what they really need.
Best Quotes
Peter Coleman: [2003, as they’re about to sleep together] That’s so cool. You own your own house.
Debbie Dunn: Oh, yeah. Well, I saved up for the down payment over, you know, some time. I put money away through careful calculations.
Peter Coleman: Nice. Amazing. When I destroy my life, can I move in with you?
Debbie Dunn: Deal!
Debbie Dunn: [2023] Happy birthday, much younger person.
Peter Coleman: What? We’re the same age.
Debbie Dunn: Not in lady years. In lady years, I’m a crone, and somehow you’ll still be considered sexy at like seventy, no matter how wrinkled and bald you get. So congratulations.
Peter Coleman: I’ll admit it. It’s a good deal.
Peter Coleman: Okay, now I’m feeling uncomfortable.
Debbie Dunn: Oh, please. I’ve seen you naked.
Peter Coleman: Never stops being weird.
Debbie Dunn: Which is so weird.
Peter Coleman: You never know, maybe you’ll meet someone while you’re here, and we’ll have a big old sex party up in here.
Debbie Dunn: Uh, barf?
Peter Coleman: Yeah, I’m sorry. That was gross.
Debbie Dunn: Anyway, no chance of me meeting anybody. As you know, my heart is a cold, hard little stone.
Peter Coleman: I’m so glad you’re not being dramatic about it.
Peter Coleman: There’s like helicopter parenting, there’s snowplow parenting. What you’re doing? This is Saran Wrap parenting. You’re so tightly wrapped around this kid, you’re suffocating him!
Debbie Dunn: Yes. I can track a metaphor. Thanks.
Debbie Dunn: Anyway, the best part of the whole night was when I took all your money!
Peter Coleman: That was the best part?
Debbie Dunn: I mean, it overshadowed the sex part, because you fled the next day.
Debbie Dunn: You said that you couldn’t date me, or anybody else, because you were, “an unknowable piece of s**t”?
Peter Coleman: There’s the writer in me right there. Now that’s a beautiful turn of phrase.
Debbie Dunn: And I’m the dramatic one?
Becca: I mean, if you like each other so much, why aren’t you guys together?
Peter Coleman: Me and Debbie? Yeah, because.
Becca: Because?
Peter Coleman: She’s her. And I’m me.
We're friends. Obviously, I have well thought out critiques of every choice you've ever made. And all the fixes.' - Alicia (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Becca: Look, if this is a waste of my time, I just want to know. Okay?
Peter Coleman: Define “waste”.
Becca: You just did. Wow.
Debbie Dunn: I have to finish this program before the end of the year, so that I can apply for that open Senior Accounting position at the Regional School District.
Alicia: Oh, I love it when you say a bunch of sexy words like that.
Alicia: Oh, my God. You are so nice about him. If my ex was a mountain climber, and spent ten months out of every year traveling the world with some hot thirty-three year-old covered in tattoos.
Debbie Dunn: Have you been looking at her Instagram?
Alicia: You think I’m not going to be looking at Jimmy’s girlfriend’s Instagram account? I mean, what are we even doing? Who would I even be?
Alicia: I hope that you get what you want out of this trip. And what you need. You know, get your degree, find a man, come home, and then remodel that ancient kitchen of yours. I also think it’s time to get layers in your hair. Layers, but not bangs. Bangs are for an emergency.
Debbie Dunn: Wow, you really have all the answers to my life figured out.
Alicia: Yeah, well, we’re friends. Obviously, I have well thought out critiques of every choice you’ve ever made. And all the fixes.
Alicia: So, if you end up going on this Manhattan adventure, and find yourself a hottie, might I suggest a manicure. Maybe get waxed. You know, spruce it up a bit.
Debbie Dunn: Waxed? Oh, “waxed”.
Alicia: Waxed.
Debbie Dunn: Oh. Well, that’s just not going to happen.
'A big part of being an adult is being bummed out. A lot of the time really.' - Debbie Dunn (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Debbie Dunn: Well, this degree is practical, which is what you have to be when you’re a single mom.
Scarlet: Oh, right. Right. Right. Tragic.
Alex: You can take my contact and erase it from your phone.
Peter Coleman: I don’t have it in my phone.
Alex: Well, then put it in your phone and then erase it.
Jack: Well, you seem kind of bummed out.
Debbie Dunn: It’s okay. I’m an adult. A big part of being an adult is being bummed out. A lot of the time really.
Jack: Oh. That’s something to look forward to.
Debbie Dunn: [to Peter] You can’t just drop everything to come and babysit. You have a job and a life. I mean, I don’t know about a life. But you have a job.
'The stories we tell ourselves are very limiting.' - Peter Coleman (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Alicia: You still got that tall, squared-jaw, long-eyelash vibe going on.
Peter Coleman: Some people like that.
Alicia: It was never my thing, but…
Peter Coleman: It’s a short-term project, right? I mean, that’s what I do. I get in, manage things, no muss, no fuss.
Alicia: I have bad news. Kids are all muss and all fuss.
Jack: My mom hates convertibles, you know? She says they roll over too easily.
Peter Coleman: Yeah, well, they’re also awesome, so that negates the rolling part.
Peter Coleman: I was a thirteen year-old boy once, alright? And I know I’m pretty cool now. But when I was thirteen I was basically a walking Adam’s apple with a bowl cut, and a tattered copy of Catcher in the Rye under my arm, so.
Peter Coleman: I cannot believe your mom didn’t tell me about this. Like she tells me everything.
Jack: But do you? Tell her everything?
Peter Coleman: Of course.
'That's what I do. I get in, manage things, no muss, no fuss.' - Peter Coleman, 'I have bad news. Kids are all muss and all fuss.' - Alicia (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Debbie Dunn: Twenty-five dollars for a glass? Oh, my God. Peter. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Jack: But I’m not supposed to watch TV while I eat. And never before homework.
Peter Coleman: You poor child. Had I known what was going on in this house, I would have come a lot sooner.
Jack: You know, my mom always says you’re kind of irresponsible. She calls you, “a rolling stone that gathers no moss”. Whatever that is.
Peter Coleman: She does, huh?
Jack: Yeah, she also says you’re terrible with women.
Minka: I’m Minka. And I am a skosh embarrassed. I thought Peter was here, and I am not wearing anything under this.
Debbie Dunn: I figured that.
Minka: Yeah, I feel like an idiot.
Debbie Dunn: Oh, don’t worry about it. We’ve all done the thing where we knock on the door half-naked for some g…
'As my drunk mother used to always say, “Mind your own business.”' - Debbie Dunn (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Minka: [to Debbie] You know, you are great. I like you. I dig this whole sexy, Gen-X, Earth Mama thing you’ve got going on.
Peter Coleman: Hey, by the way, are you aware that there is a gentleman and his butt crack in your yard all ding-dong day?
Debbie Dunn: Oh, yeah. That’s Zen. He’s around a lot.
Debbie Dunn: This place is amazing. It’s just comfortable and…
Peter Coleman: Really?
Debbie Dunn: No, not really. It’s very, very empty. It looks like somebody stole all your stuff.
Peter Coleman: Yeah, well, if they did, they brought it all here, because you have all the stuff. Like literally, all the things that are, were, and ever shall be, are here.
'You get what you get, and you don't get upset.' - Debbie Dunn (Your Place or Mine) Click To Tweet
Peter Coleman: [to Debbie] Oh, yeah. Just so you know, your kid’s a sieve. Alright? So everything you’ve ever said about me, I’m about to hear.
Peter Coleman: [to Jack] My work here is very simple. It’s to teach you to tell a story to other people about you that is better than the story that you tell yourself. Because the stories we tell ourselves are very limiting.
Jack: Do you always answer a question with a question?
Peter Coleman: Do you always answer a question to a question with a question?
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