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Together Opens to Acclaim and Free Therapy Tie-In as Copyright Suit Continues

Boasting a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score with visceral practical effects, it has earned rave reviews since its July 30 release.

Overview

  • Michael Shanks’s debut features real-life spouses Alison Brie and Dave Franco playing a couple who literalize codependency through a supernatural body-fusion metaphor.
  • The film was acquired by Neon for about $17 million following its Sundance premiere, marking one of the festival’s first major sales.
  • Neon’s promotion offers free couples therapy sessions through August 3 in partnership with OurRitual for opening-weekend ticket holders.
  • Together’s practical and digital effects, especially its graphic body-horror transformations, have been widely praised for their immersive visceral impact.
  • StudioFest’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the film remains active despite Shanks’s defense based on his 2019 WGA script registration.