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The Horror of Codependency

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4.552.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Maintaining a long-term romantic relationship is hard work. There are good times and there are bad and sometimes couples just grow apart over time. But in the new horror movie Together, growing apart is not an option for Millie and Tim. Starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, Together explores the idea of codependency in a horrific way as the couple becomes literally attached to each other.

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0:00.0

I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is the Sunday story.

0:04.1

Being in a long-term relationship can be tough.

0:08.3

I mean, you know, let me tell you.

0:10.7

I still got some of the scars.

0:13.2

You know, you grow together, you grow apart, you fight, you make up.

0:19.3

And over time, it can really become difficult to know who you are outside of that partnership.

0:27.6

It's that kind of stickiness that's at the heart of a new horror film starring real-life married

0:34.0

couple, Alison Brie and Dave Franco.

0:37.2

Bree plays Millie, a school teacher, and Franco plays Tim, a middle-aged wannabe

0:42.9

indie rocker.

0:44.2

The couple are on the verge of breaking up and questioning what the relationship is really about.

0:51.1

You've never made me feel unsure before.

0:54.4

Unsure of what?

0:57.3

If we love each other, if we're just used to each other.

1:02.6

The movie explores this question of codependency in a very horrific way as the couple

1:10.0

becomes literally attached to each other.

1:13.6

Allison and Dave joined me to talk about the film and why horror works to get at deeper

1:19.5

truths about relationships.

1:21.6

To get started, I asked Allison to describe what was going on with Millie and Tim at the

1:27.0

beginning of the movie.

1:29.6

Well, I think they are not in a good place. They've been together over a decade, but they don't

1:36.5

quite seem to be on the same page in terms of the next steps in their relationship. I play Millie.

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