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| Director
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Ben Younger
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| Starring
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Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep,
Bryan Greenberg |
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| The plot of
Prime |
A career driven professional from the Upper East
Side (Uma Thurman) is wooed by a young painter
from Brooklyn (Greenberg), who also happens to
be the son of her psychoanalyst (Meryl Streep).
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Prime
Movie Review
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Review by RONNIE
SCHEIB:
Despite a comic Yiddishe mama turn by Meryl StreepMeryl
Streep and a sensitively nuanced perfperf by Uma ThurmanUma
Thurman in a convincing changeup from her recent kickass
action roles, "Prime" remains an oddly juiceless
older woman-younger man romance, with a Freudian twist.
Lead actresses acquit themselves swimmingly, generating
believable chemistry and plenty of estrogen, with boychik
Bryan Greenberg also passing muster. But secondary characters,
drearily one-dimensional, die on the vine in a slick
but cliche script by writer-director Ben YoungerBen
Younger ("Boiler Room""Boiler Room")
that narratively hedges its bets. Even for femme auds,
"Prime," skedded to open Oct. 28, rates a
cut below grade A.Rafi (Thurman) has just terminated
a loveless nine-year marriage and is dependent on her
shrink, Lisa Metzger (Streep), for friendship and support.
That support is seriously threatened when Rafi starts
dating and sleeping with David (Greenberg), who happens
to be Metzger's son (a fact Metzger discovers but which
is unknown to everyone else)..more..
Review By Ben
Kenigsberg:
No, it's not a prequel
to last year's vertiginous Sundance prizewinner. In
his sophomore feature, Ben Younger (Boiler Room) attempts
to reinvent himself as a young Woody Allen, reversing
the Woodman's age and gender dynamics but yielding mortifying
moments all the same. Two weeks after getting divorced,
37-year-old Rafi (Uma Thurman) falls for 23-year-old
David (Bryan Greenberg), not realizing that his mother
Lisa (an owlish, bewigged Meryl Streep) is also her
therapist. Thus, "cute" scenes where Thurman
tells mom about having sex on every surface in the apartment,
to Lisa's humiliation but Rafi's oblivious delight.
Somehow, mother has reasoned against informing either
party that she knows the other, and so this allegedly
sophisticated comedy quickly descends into immaturity.
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