Together (2025) * *

Directed by:  Michael Shanks

Starring:  Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman

Longtime couple Tim (Franco) and Millie (Brie) move out to the country in hopes of revitalizing their stagnant relationship.  The passion is missing.  For reasons never made clear, they haven't had sex in months and a general malaise has set in.  The movie Together itself suffers from that same issue.  Not the no sex part, but the malaise part.  Franco and Brie are married in real life, and their is definite depth to the performances, but the movie is a horror film and thus the horror appears early and often.

While hiking in the nearby woods, Tim and Millie find themselves trapped in a cave overnight.  Thirsty Dave drinks from the pool of water collected there (a no-no as it turns out) and the two wake up with some funky glue-like good connecting them.  They manage to free themselves of the goo and the cave, but soon they begin to pull towards each other like magnets.  I've heard of magnetism, but this is ridiculous.  No matter how they try to stay physically apart, they find themselves sticking together.

One of Millie's fellow teacher friends (Merriman) is ominously patient, kind, and sweet, which means he either likes her or is keeping a secret.  The first possibility is erased early and then we await the mysterious explanation of all of this.  I won't give away the ending, but when Tim and Millie put on the record player and play the Spice Girls' Two Become One, well that was that.  And then I had questions.  Such as under whose name do we keep the utility bill?  Just wondering.