YOU, ME AND HER (2023)
Starring Selina Ringel, Sydney Park, Ritesh Rajan, Graham Sibley, Anna Campbell, Gerry Bednob, Marianna Burelli, Fiorella Vescovi García, Roberto Aguire, Hernán Mendoza, Kyle Trueblood, Veronica Scheyving, Juan Carlos Estrada, Anaina, César Alejandro González, Luis Hernández Guintero, Saleena Khamamkar and Marie Eve Valerie Royer.
Screenplay by Selina Ringel.
Directed by Dan Levy Dagerman.
Distributed by Attend. 94 minutes. Rated R.
With the mess of pronouns in the title of this film, it’s not all that hard to guess that this is a movie about a threesome.
This in itself is not a terrible thing. In fact, it could be sexy fun. However, the movie pretty much keeps it all on a surface level. It shows a long-time couple who are starting to get on each other’s nerves getting a kick of dopamine when on a Mexican vacation and the wife, Mags (star and screenwriter Selina Ringel) suddenly is hit with an attraction to another woman, a bi-sexual curiosity which she has long squelched.
And the husband Ash (Ritesh Rojan) is a typical guy. He finds this turn of fortunes to be super sexy – as long as he can join in, or at the very least, watch.
The problem is that the idea of threesomes really only work out with happy, confident, committed couples. If there are some cracks in the bond, adding another person will usually only widen them.
You, Me and Her asks some weighty questions about marriages and relationships, but it does not necessarily answer all of them, or even many of them. At least not satisfactorily. How the potential swinging adventure changes the married couple’s existence is only touched upon.
This is more than can be said for the other woman Angela (Sydney Park), who eventually seems to be simply a tool of their marriage’s salvation. She is a fantasy creature who will come and go (and go and come) as needed, and then simply go away when they are done with her.
All of which may be a little unfair to You, Me and Her, which is supposed to be a lightweight, escapist comic look at spicing up dull marriages. It never claims that it is a psychological study of people who get involved in throuples. The movie is often rather charming if you take it at its own sea level.
Mags is an exec in her father’s business, but hates the fact that dad is constantly undercutting her at the office. Ash is a stay-at-home dad (although it seems the nanny does most of the heavy lifting, parenthood-wise) who is trying to create a home-based weed business. (In fact, Ash seems to be more in love with weed than his family.)
They are fighting more than speaking, and Ash decides they need to have a break. He plans a trip to a Mexican resort for the two of them to unwind, although beyond finding a terrific home to stay in, he seems to mostly be taking the trip as it comes. She spends time at the beach and pool, he mostly is looking for someplace to score weed. Then, one night they run into a kinda-couple (they are married, but to other people) who try to teach them about partying and swinging.
Mags and Ash decide not to get involved with them, but soon she meets pretty yoga instructor Angela who starts Mags fantasizing. They befriend her, but the hoped-for affair does not happen before they have to go home. Then, when back in real life, they get a message from Angela that she will be passing through Los Angeles soon.
So, will this new potential adventure help to heal the relationship, or will there be a bunch of wacky complications which get in the way of the couple? I think you know the answer to that. And perhaps that’s okay, because the audience does not necessarily feel the investment in the couple and their first-world problems.
But if you’re looking for a light evening’s entertainment with a bunch of attractive people wallowing in their lives, you can do a lot worse.
Jay S. Jacobs
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