‘Somebody I Used to Know’ review: Sparks fly with an ex but — whoops! — he’s engaged to someone else in this Alison Brie rom-com
A joint effort from wife-and-husband team Alison Brie and Dave Franco, the romantic comedy “Somebody I Used to Know” (on Amazon) takes a page from “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and probably more than one Hallmark movie: A woman attempts to disrupt pending nuptials so she can have the guy for herself.
I’m a big believer in tropes. If deployed right, they are a solid framework that can then be subverted in all kinds of interesting ways, which is what Brie and Franco have done here. She stars and he directs from a script they co-wrote
