Alone Together Review: Sweet Romance & Relevant Themes Overcome Poor Writing
For many, the pandemic is a thing of the past. Travel is as hectic as ever, even more so with people fleeing to just about anywhere to escape the reality they were forced to endure for two-plus years. Katie Holmes’ latest directorial effort, Alone Together, focuses on the early days of the pandemic, telling a story that centers on two strangers (played by Holmes and Jim Sturgess) sharing an Airbnb in Upstate New York during the COVID-19 lockdown. Fleeing the reality of the COVID pandemic, these two people find that refuge isn’t just a place, but can be a person too. With so many people and life going back to some semblance of normalcy, Alone Together may feel slightly too late, but Holmes' film offers something worth engaging with.
Alone Together begins as though it will be a film version of Rachel Hollis’ “What is it about me that made you think I want to be relatable?” rant from 2021. Katie Holmes plays June, a restaurant critic from the New York's Upper West Side. She is entitled, pompous, and fails to recognize her condescending tone. Amid the pandemic, she and her boyfriend John (Derek Luke) plan on a romantic getaway to escape the rising danger from COVID-19. She is exasperated when the subway service slows down and trains leaving the city are delayed and cancelled. She says she is having a bad day, but the look on the ticket agent’s face says it all: June is out of touch. As June steps away from what her life used to be, she begins to grow into the person she enjoys being and wants to become.
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Alone Together thrives on the sincerity of the romance between June and Charlie (Sturgess) and the dissolution of her relationship with John. In part, the romance between June and
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