Which makes it all the more frustrating when the film seems to bend over backwards to avoid addressing it fully and falls into the trappings of unoriginality. But there’s an elephant in the room here that, contextually, sets the film apart from many of its predecessors and offers a unique blend of heightened emotion and intense routine upheaval. But as the pandemic shows no signs of easing off, the pair find themselves slowly adjusting to this new normal, learning more about what it is they want out of life, and navigating the intimacy that blooms from such strange beginnings.Īs a romantic drama, Alone Together isn’t particularly ground-breaking, and the progression of June and Charlie’s relationship from strangers to something more is pretty predictable. A hectic day’s travel means June is exhausted, and Charlie somewhat reluctantly agrees to let her stay alongside him. But when she arrives, she finds that not only has John decided to stay at home and look after his parents, but the house has been double booked and Charlie (Jim Sturgess), a recently single handy-man, is already there.

June ( Katie Holmes) is a New York food critic, freshly unemployed and keen to spend what she assumes will be a couple weeks of isolation at a remote Airbnb with her boyfriend John (Derek Luke).

And yet not really doing anything with that reminder.

While it’s not the first to use it as a plot device, Alone Together utilises the stay-at-home mandates of early 2020 as the crux of its meet-cute and romantic narrative, consistently reminding its audience of just how confusing, strange and unprecedented this period of time was. It was only a matter of time before the pandemic firmly etched itself into media outside the 24-hour news cycle, having disrupted normality so thoroughly for over two years. Writer, director and star Katie Holmes’ Alone Together is a Covid-era romantic drama that hints at meaningful commentary, but ultimately plays out pretty predictably.

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