Real life couples playing big screen lovers has been a fascination for audiences since the days of Fairbanks and Pickford, Tracy and Hepburn, Cruise and Kidman. How much of what we are watching is indicative of the real-life dynamic between these two performers? Do they love like that, lean on the other’s shoulder in the same way when the camera stops rolling? And is that quarrel real or just Kubrick wreaking havoc on two people’s personal lives?

There is plenty of precedent in the uncanny valley through which writer-director Michael Shanks enters via his debut feature Together —a movie that casts Dave Franco and Alison Brie as Tim and Millie, a co-dependent couple doomed to get a lot closer in what either amounts to the most disturbing of body horror nightmares… or a swoon-worthy a

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