Overview

• Together holds around a 90% Rotten Tomatoes rating as reviewers applaud its inventive body-horror metaphor for codependency.
• Directed by Michael Shanks and led by Alison Brie and Dave Franco, the film has earned roughly $20 million worldwide on a $17 million budget since its late-July US release and mid-August UK debut.
• Neon, WME and the filmmakers point to a 2019 Writers Guild of America registration and contemporaneous drafts as proof of independent creation.
• Plaintiff StudioFest claims the film echoes Patrick Henry Phelan’s 2023 indie Better Half, alleging copied plot points, dialogue and sequences from a 2020 pitch.
• Composer Cornel Wilczek’s score and strategic needle-drops, notably the Spice Girls’ “2 Become 1,” have amplified the film’s unsettling atmosphere and audience buzz.