At the heart of Aline Brosh McKenna’s directorial debut “Your Place Or Mine” lies a personal story. The Netflix rom-com stars Reese Witherspoon as single mom Debbie, who lives in Los Angeles with her son Jack (Weslely Kimmel) and Ashton Kutcher as New York-based bachelor Peter, who have been good friends for 20 years.
Debbie originally plans to stay at Peter’s apartment with him in order to finish a masters accounting program so that she can get a new job, but when her babysitter cancels at the last minute, Peter offers to fly to Los Angeles to watch Jack so that Debbie can complete her degree. “On the most surface level, it’s personal, because I stayed in my friend Ted’s apartment when he was a bachelor.
So that was the inspiration,” she said. “My husband (Will McKenna) and I were friends long distance for a while, and it was in a time before cellphones and the Internet, which our kids like to make fun of us for saying that, but if I wanted to call him I had to [dial the phone], and then wait for it to ring.
And so I always felt like we almost missed each other.”“There was a point where I had lost his phone number, and then I ran into him on the street in New York, and if I hadn’t run into him on the street, [my sons] might not be here,” she added.“I don’t believe in fate or destiny, what I believe in is there are opportunities served up to you by your life, and you either grab them or you don’t.”The night Peter and Debbie met, they slept together, and at the time it seemed like just a one night stand. “I think that 20-something women will relate to the idea that you meet somebody and go, ‘Someday he will have his shit pulled together, but today is not that day.
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