Even the uninteresting title indicates what you are letting yourself in for with this conveyor-belt rom-com, which finds Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher as two smug long-standing best friends (who hooked up once when younger) doing a New York/LA life-swap for a week, with Witherspoon's 12-year-old son thrown into the mix for Kutcher to discover a parental streak and for her to open up to possible romance. The basic formula has Witherspoon talking lots very fast and Kutcher removing his shirt regularly as the film grinds along predictably, like The Holiday but without Christmas, overlong and vacuous but with the occasional good line that lands. Your Place or Mine is perhaps not the worst example of the genre, but it does nothing to surprise or to really engage or entertain.
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