Dave Franco, Alison Brie Face Lawsuit Over $17M Hit Film ‘Trouble’ Being ‘Blatant Rip Off’

Filmmaker and actor Dave Franco and his actor-producer wife Alison Brie have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over their buzzy Sundance Film Festival horror film “Together.”

The suit, filed Tuesday, May 13, in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, says the couple’s film is a “blatant rip-off” of “Better Half,” a 2023 independent film. Both movies play off the concept of a couple being physically fused together, and the suit alleges other plot and thematic elements in “Together,” including a “near verbatim” reference to Plato’s “Symposium,” were lifted from the earlier film.

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