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Prime (2005)
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Critic Consensus: 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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as Rafi Gardet
as Lisa Metzger
as David Bloomberg
as Morris
as Rita
as Sam
as Blanch
as Randall
as Katherine
as Michelle
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Critic Reviews for Prime
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The writing and direction by Ben Younger is crisp and insightful enough to prevail, and the performances are all very good.
Follows 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.
Audience Reviews for Prime
Quite a nice story, though ending was a bit icky and not exactly a feel good romance. Maybe quite realistic for a relationship between an older woman and younger man.
Super Reviewer
A lightly neurotic Shiksa divorcee of a certain age falls in love with a twenty-something who turns out to be the ridiculously good-looking son of her very Jewish psychoanalyst. Really quite sweet and Annie Hall-esque, down to the bittersweet closing montage of Rafi and David's time together. The sprinkling of Jewishisms is more earnest (than in Allen fare) and contemporary with the Jewish hip hop soundtrack, and the mistaken identity plot is funny but not too embarrassing or uncomfortable. The moment of revelation isn't "Greek in scope"; it's quiet and stunned. Bryan Greenberg is just really, really, ridiculously good-looking, and Uma Thurman is charming in a way I haven't appreciated in the past. I love the scene with Morris having to hide in the closet, then being startled by the cat, then feeding the cat beer, then sneezing because he's allergic, and subsequently, giving himself away.
Super Reviewer
I thought this film was well done. Young pretty guy falls for beautiful "older" woman (Uma Thurman). It just turns out that Uma's shrink (Meryl Streep) is pretty guy's mom. Imagine the possibilities! Meryl plays the Jewish mother/therapist well.
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