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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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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Movie Info
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
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Annie Parisse
Katherine -
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Aubrey Dollar
Michelle
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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (59) | 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.
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.
[Prime is] an enjoyable romcom, it's sharply observed and has some interesting things to say about relationships. Worth seeing.
...mature and surprisingly thoughtful...
All of "Prime" is ripe for the kind of discovery that comes with seeing it on a video store shelf after either passing it a few times or not finding what you wanted the first time.
A solid romantic comedy that benefits from its ambition to look at the importance of age and religious differences, even if it could have gone deeper.
It's pretentiously clever premise executed in a very conventional, and ultimately dull manner, Prime is an intended heartbreaker that in execution is an extended flatline.
Never really rises above comedic fluff, no matter how introspective or bittersweet it becomes.
The highlight of this complex love story is the moment when Meryl Streep's conservative therapist realises that the intimate details her vulnerable patient (Uma Thurman) is sharing with her, are actually about her own son.
The odd thing about Prime is that the film is so neatly constructed and the story so engaging, I have little to say besides please go see it.
... yet another film that screams, 'Wait for the video release.'
...boasts a strong cast, but sticks it in too many contrived sitcom scenarios that detract from much of the emotional impact.
Abrahams and Streep simply steal a movie dominated by two less interesting characters.
Prime is as dead as any body at the morgue.
A surprisingly wise, mature and difficult look at psychiatric ethics and the inherent problems of dating outside one's age bracket.
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