It wouldn’t be the first time two men have chased after Reece Witherspoon but perhaps not quite like this.

Using the considerable resources of the CIA, special agents and best friends FDR and Tuck, played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy track, spy and try to do whatever it takes to steal the heart of Reece Witherspoon’s This Means War character Laurent Scott.

“I don't think many women are dating two guys at once, especially two best friends, and I think that's where it gets really complicated, but she has no idea,” Witherspoon said of her character.

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US late night TV host Chelsea Handler plays Witherspoon’s best friend in the movie, and you're not left wondering what she really thinks on, or off, the set.

“That's me. You've got to tell it like it is, otherwise what’s the point? You've got to be honest,” she said. “Guys have been doing this to girls for years, and I think it’s about time women took their power back.”

Amongst all of the fanfare of the premiere at the famous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, were two not-so-famous Australians from the Central Coast in New South Wales who went to great lengths to prove their love.

The winner’s of the Today Tonight competition wrote to tell us the craziest thing they’d ever done for love, and got to taste the life of a Hollywood A-lister.

“I met my husband when I was sixteen and I fell in love with him, and he was a lot older than me - I think 28 or 29. And when I was 17, I decided we would get married, and it shocked everybody. Everybody thought we were crazy and I was too young in Australia to get married, so we eloped in New Zealand to get married in the registry,” Di Alchin said.

Eighteen years later Keith and Di Alchin are living proof that love is worth fighting for.

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