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When you’re an adult, your friendships tend to take on a variety of different forms: your work friends, your parenting friends, your neighborhood friends, your old friends from when you were in school. But in the charming comedy Together Together, two people find friendship in an unexpected way.
Together Together starts a new family with single 40-something Matt (Ed Helms) and his 20-something surrogate, Anna (Patti Harrison). Despite all of the planning and arrangements they’ve made, they realize that they hadn’t really thought about how they’d navigate their relationship with each other. And as they go through the process, attending doctor’s appointments and therapy sessions and birthing classes together, these two lonely people work through the awkwardness of their agreement and start to build a strange but valuable friendship.
The relationship between these two very different yet surprisingly similar characters lends to all kinds of natural awkwardness. Though they were strangers before the whole process began, Patti is now carrying Matt’s child—which means that something inside her body ultimately belongs to him. He wants her to take care of herself, since she’s caring for his baby, and that causes him to cross over some boundaries that most strangers wouldn’t dream of crossing. It’s all a little strange and uncomfortable, and it makes for so many comical moments.
At the same time, though, the characters’ growing relationship is also strangely sweet. Both of the characters are single and alone, trying to figure out their own direction in life. Matt is caught between friends who have settled down with families and friends who are struggling to hold on to their youth—and while he’s always wanted to settle down, it just hasn’t worked out for him in the way that it has for other people. Anna, meanwhile, is still young, but she’s on her own, too—living away from her disapproving family, trying to figure out what’s next. As the two work through this strange relationship, they find a kindred spirit in their birth partner. And as that relationship plays out through all of its ups and downs and uncertainties, it tells an undeniably charming story of finding friendship where you least expect it.
Told with equally hearty doses of heart and humor, Together Together is a sweet feel-good story that will keep audiences laughing through each uncomfortable moment in the characters’ journey. It’s an unexpectedly lovable story about a perfectly platonic relationship between two people who didn’t know that they needed each other.
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