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Prime

2005

Ben Younger

Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams ...

5.6

8,308

Romance. Comedy Prime is a sophisticated character comedy about Rafi (Uma Thurman), a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan, and what happens when Dave (Bryan Greenberg), a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn, falls in love with her. Part counselor, part Jewish mother, Rafis therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep) is gingerly helping Rafi out of her post-divorce slump and through the urgent alarm of her ticking biological clock. ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Younger knows it’s fun to watch Rafi and David cross lines of age, culture and religion. He also knows it’s painful. That’s what makes his movie hilarious and heartfelt (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie works through the performances (...) On the whole I was satisfied (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Pleasant, but not very memorable -- a pale mirror image of 'Shopgirl,' which touches on some similar themes."
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A solid romantic comedy"
		Ronnie Scheib Variety	"Despite a comic Yiddishe mama (...) and a sensitively nuanced performance by Uma Thurman (...) 'Prime' remains an oddly juiceless older woman-younger man romance, with a Freudian twist"

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