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Mood:
- HumorousCleverContemplativeSentimentalWittyBittersweet
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Plot:
- Fall in LoveParents and ChildrenLove and RomanceCouplesFamily RelationsCouple RelationsDoctors and PatientsDishonesty more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDramaRomanceIndependent
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- New York
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Audience:
- Date NightGirls' Night
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Style:
- Talky
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- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Prime, 2005
English
USA
Profile of Prime
The mood of Prime is humorous, bittersweet, and clever. The plot centers around falling in love, parents and children, and family relations. It is a drama, comedy, and independent movie. Stylistically, Prime is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is New York. Prime happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night.
Summary of Prime
New York City forms the backdrop for writer/director Ben Younger's (BOILER ROOM) PRIME, a gentle comedy that weaves a tale of two lovers trying to keep the flame alive as an unusual obstacle is hurled in their path. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a newly divorced 37-year-old career woman who regularly spills her woes to her therapist, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep). Rafi's love life takes a sudden upturn when she meets Bryan Greenberg (David Bloomberg), a penniless painter who lives on the Lower East Side with his grandparents and, at 23, is significantly younger than Rafi. Uptown girl Rafi isn't used to such differences in age and location, but the sex is great, and Bryan seems attentive enough, so she jubilantly tells Lisa in passionate detail about their blossoming relationship. The trouble is, the more Rafi tells her, the more Lisa realizes that the hot young boy-toy Rafi is busy seducing on a nightly basis is, in fact, her own son. The problems mount, with Rafi's status as a gentile not going over well with Bryan's Jewish family, and Lisa unable to decide whether to stop the therapy sessions or not.
Younger delivers a heady mixture of laughs and salient points in a film that settles snugly into familiar early-21st-century territory for romantic-comedy fans. He peppers the action with product placement, warm pastel colors in spacious FRIENDS-style New York apartments, and bitter recriminations that quickly turn to passionate makeup sex on more than one occasion. The director clearly enjoys a love affair with the city, with swooping shots throughout of the late-night Manhattan skyline providing the perfect setting as his two leads act out their bittersweet union.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 September 2005 |
| Runtime: | 105 min |
Cast and Crew
as Rafi Gardet
as Lisa Metzger
as David Bloomberg
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Critics Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Kirk Honeycutt
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Carina Chocano
Users Reviews
- 21.March.2009
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- by: gauravarora77
- gauravarora77 rated this movie
8/10Great
- 08.November.2008
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- by: ralph.wiggum
- ralph.wiggum rated this movie
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