Ask any couple that have been married for decades and that marriage vow of being together forever til death us do part, initially a dream becomes a nightmare, at least that’s what our Editor’s wife tells us! (‘You’re fired!‘ – Ed) . But that’s not quite what Millie (Alison Brie) believes having landed her dream job as a school teacher in the country she and her partner Tim (Dave Franco ) hold a party for their city friends as they prepare to leave for their new life together. But it ends in slight humiliation when Alison proposes to Tim in front of their friends in a painfully awkward moment when, what should be an instantaneous yes is delayed….. and delayed…. and delayed until the awkward silence sees him blurt out, ‘Yes’. It’s hardly surprising then that she tells him after the party that ‘If we don’t split now it’ll be that much harder’ when they move to the country. Its prophetic words that will come back to haunt them.
For Tim the aspiring and yet to make it musician whose dream is really being supported by Millie’s job relocating away from the city especially when he feels like he is now trapped as a house husband having not learnt to drive and now isolated in their new country home. But the ill omens are already there with a discovery in a ceiling, the news of a local couple who have recently gone missing, and Tim & Millie falling into an underground cave during torrential rain that sees them sleep there overnight with Tim making the decision to drink the underground stream’s water. You can almost hear the audience thinking, ‘NOOOOOOOO!’
Written and directed by Michael Shanks this is well constructed script with nods to Cronenberg’s body of work as well as John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ and Brian Yuzna’s ‘Society’. For the couple it all soon begins goes awry with the aid of great effects as the pairs bodies start to contort with a tryst in a toilet that might see any men suffering from eurotophobia squirm. Brie and Franco are real life husband and wife ( as well as the film’s producers) and are understandably terrific as the couple and Together is a film that veers effortlessly between horror and awkward laughs making this a hugely entertaining movie just not perhaps a date movie.
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Here’s the Together trailer…….
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