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Together



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 42m
Country: Australia, USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Horror
Plot Summary: Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: The horror of a committed relationship! A smart script that's scary when it needs to be, funny when it needs to be, and has a surprisngly sweet ending. Franco and Brie draw upon their real life marriage to create complex and very believable characters. You'll agree with both sides of all of their arguments. This probably plays better if you've been in a long-term relationship, and especially if you've been in a failed long-term relationship.


Outside Reviews:

Tomris Laffly
3.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

No matter how you spin it, twosomes are perennially daunting. Damned if you're at the beginning of a promising road with someone; damned if you're years into something secure. If it isn't the dread towards the unknown, then it is the fear of losing the sure thing. In the meticulously calibrated and sharply perceptive "Together," a piercing codependency allegory with plenty of purposeful body-horror set pieces and a wicked sense of humor, debuting feature filmmaker Michael Shanks grasps what makes love so thoroughly frightening (and thus, so thoroughly fit for horror) on a deep level. The primary question on this movie's mind goes something like this: What if you're safely settled into the relationship that you always wanted, but you're somehow growing apart and alone?


Brianna Zigler
Grade: B - Together is for lovers with strong stomachs

The fear of losing oneself to a long-term relationship and losing the relationship is an unpretentious one; spending such a prolonged time with one person can breed resentment and create questions of whether the pairing endures only because it's what they are used to. That the cure could be a literal melding of body and spirit isn't to say that couples must pander to the most toxic parts of dependency; rather, it's that a true partnership involves two people not losing themselves to each other, but finding themselves in each other—realizing their fullest selves through their shared affection. The profound depth of feeling generated by Brie and Franco in the midst of this genre film, one perhaps unattainable if they weren't also married in real life, gives Together a real shot as the greatest romance of the year, even if it's also a film that happens to feature a motorized, saw-toothed blade slicing through mutated flesh. It takes more than gore to undermine the sensation of being so in love with someone that you want to get inside their skin.