Prime (2005)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 58 | Rotten: 59
Though Streep is dependably terrific in her role, the rest of the movie is too sitcom-ish, and the romance itself is dull.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 16
Though Streep is dependably terrific in her role, the rest of the movie is too sitcom-ish, and the romance itself is dull.
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Two women get a new and unusual perspective on the doctor/patient relationship in this romantic comedy. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has recently gone through a messy divorce. Rafi has been seeing an analyst, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), as she struggles to get back on her feet emotionally and look for new love. Rafi meets a man named David Bloomberg (Bryan Greenberg), and the two quickly hit it off, but Rafi isn't sure if she should pursue the relationship, since
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Meryl Streep
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Uma Thurman
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Bryan Greenberg
David Bloomberg -
Jon Abrahams
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Zak Orth
Randall -
Annie Parisse
Katherine -
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Aubrey Dollar
Michelle
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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (63) | DVD (22)
The writing and direction by Ben Younger is crisp and insightful enough to prevail, and the performances are all very good.
Top CriticFollows a familiar boy-meets-girl scenario, but Younger turns the routine into combustible fun.
A movie as weirdly titled as it is constructed, the romantic comedy Prime is proof that even the great Meryl Streep occasionally slips up in her acting choices.
Streep, beaming in her horn-rimmed glasses and spouting platitudes like 'Focus on the now, for now,' makes it all a treat.
A cut above the formulaic romances Hollywood typically grinds out.
Manages a number of decent PG-13 laughs.
Like most relationship films it has a tendency to self-indulgence. Prime is less about relationships than it is about life lessons - a funny, bittersweet one; but that is unfortunately what a lot of relationships turn out to be.
"Prime" is an above average romantic comedy that still doesn't quite make the grade.
Predictable comedy with lots of sex talk. Pushes PG-13 boundary.
Really is nice, often charming, occasionally funny.
Not very funny, I didn't like it.
Ironically, this therapeutic romantic comedy ultimately suffers from too many unexplored issues.
Meryl Streep brilla en esta comedia romántica graciosa y disfrutable sobre el amor, los prejuicios, y otras costumbres muy humanas.
You'd get/give a second date after this one. Probably.
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