Alison Brie and Dave Franco 'Together' bring authenticity to the roles

The perils of the dating scene are vast, but there are horrors in long-term relationships too. With intimacy and commitment, there can also come codependency and even convergence. Once individuals, some couples start to dress alike, act alike and even, terrifyingly, look alike. On the comedic end, there's the smug marrieds table of “Bridget Jones.” And then there's the scary end in “Together,” in which convergence is rendered more literally and where the Spice Girls anthem “2 Become I” takes on a whole new, horrifying meaning.

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“Together,” written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks in his feature debut, stars Alison Brie and Dave Franco as the converging couple Millie and Tim.

Brie and Franco bring some authenticity to the roles — in real life, they've been together for nearly 15 years and married for eight. When they're calling one another “babe” onscreen or reacting to the other's light flirting with someone else, the lived-in comfort and easy rapport is evident. That's not to say this film doesn't require them to stretch or act, but the base credibility established by that off-screen fact goes a long way in selling the wild things that transpire down the line.