Product: Prime
Rating: 4.0
Honestly, this is prime entertainment...
There's just something so inviting about a film starring the great Meryl Streep and the deliciously enticing Uma Thurman. With that said, `Prime' delivers the goods, giving us a supremely funny while ultimately honest look at a relationship doomed from the very start. It does play to some overseen clichés from time to time, but for the most part `Prime' is true to itself and I must say that, to its credit, the ending was not predictable. That's all I'll say about that; I don't want to spoil anything.`Prime' tells the story of middle-aged divorcee Rafi Gardet (I say middle-aged, but she's not quite there yet) who finds herself in a romantic relationship with a young painter named David Bloomberg; young as in 23 to her 37. The relationship, while odd at first, grows nicely on the couple who genuinely appear to be falling in love with one another. There's only one problem, and that problem is Rafi's therapist Lisa Metzger who just so happens to be David's mother.What makes `Prime' work so well is the chemistry between its stars. We all know that Meryl and Uma are great actresses, but that doesn't always spell out success. This time it does. Both Uma and Meryl mesh so well together you never get a feeling of forced comedy between them. They are enjoying themselves and thus we are enjoying them. Even better though is the romantic chemistry between Thurman and Bryan Greenberg. It's not hard to imagine falling for the beautiful Uma Thurman, but just because she's attractive doesn't mean you can fake the kind of intimacy needed to make this film work. Thurman and Greenberg are so natural together, so believable tender and affectionate that you fall in love along with them.`Prime' may seem familiar in scenes; I'm not denying that there are streams of unoriginality here; but `Prime' handles things in a very mature way. This is not the comedy I expected to see walking into it. I really expected your run of the mill gag-filled romantic comedy but `Prime' offers the audience a sense of relatability that all too often goes missing in rom-coms today.In the end I highly recommend `Prime'. It's funny, witty and sweet but most of all, it's sincere. Thurman is breathtaking, Greenberg is charming and Streep is a scene stealing hoot. This is truly a prime example of a movie giving its audience what they truly deserve.