'Alone Together' Trailer: Katie Holmes and Jim Sturgess Forge Love in the Time of COVID

At a time when the very genre of romantic comedies is in play, “Alone Together” arrives just in time to fuel a nostalgic formula for the trope of first enemies becoming lovers.

Katie Holmes writes, directs, produces and stars in the quaint romantic comedy set in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Holmes plays restaurant critic June who leaves Manhattan after being on a break with her boyfriend John (Derek Luke). She retreats to an upstate Airbnb, which is inadvertently double-booked by Charlie, another lonely heart, played by Jim Sturgess. Yet a love triangle quickly ensues as John visits the rental and tries to make his rocky relationship survive the lockdown.

"Alone Together" premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, and also co-starred "Girls" alums Becky Ann Baker and Zosia Mamet, as well as Melissa Leo. The film will be released on July 22 from Vertical Entertainment.

'Alone Together' marks Holmes' second directorial venture after the 2016 drama 'All We Had'. His third film 'Rare Objects', also starring Derek Luke, was also shot during the COVID-19 lockdown under his Lafayette Pictures banner.

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In my IndieWire review of "Alone Together", I wrote that Sturgess' character, Charlie, really follows the "written by a woman" trend. "If there was a maniacal leprechaun dream man, it would be Charlie," while citing that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's voiceover warning of PPE shortages only interrupts the attention of June on the BDE at Airbnb.

"It's easy to get lost in the nostalgic parts of 'Alone Together,' like the effortlessly quaint Anthropologie furniture and sleek cabinetry of a 'woman on the go in the Big Apple'. It's even more easy to get lost in Jim The simple but charming banter of Sturgess and Holmes. But don't get too dreamy about yesterday's romantic comedies: the film, which premiered at Tribeca 2022, is a shocking reminder that the world is a heartbreaking place full of death, betrayal and traumatic loss.So goes our cute and quirky getaway.

“Alone Together” has the momentum of a kind of recovery, but the plot tries to do too much, to say too much, when it should only be about love. Who cares if it's a formula or not? In the midst of this pandemic, maybe being someone you can rely on is a good thing."

Check out the trailer below.

“Alone Together” will air on July 22.

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