Product: Prime
Rating: 4.0
A Pleasant Surprise!
Surprisingly good comedy about Uma Thurman who is seeing a psychologist (Meryl Streep) because of a recent divorce. When she is not working, Streep has the role of the stereotypical Jewish mother who frets over her son. One day she meets a much younger man, David 23. She starts talking to Streep about David but tells him he is 27. The audience realizes that David is in fact Streep's son but Streep has no way of knowing. Thurman asks her if she should really consider pursuing David, since he is so much younger. Streep tells her to go ahead and that it might help get her out of her depression.Things get hairier as Thurman and David become lovers and Thurman starts describing in vivid detail to Streep about their encounters. Pretty soon Streep starts to figure out that Thurman's David is the same David that is her son. This almost causes her to have a heart attack since Thurman is not Jewish and a lot older and Streep knows all the graphic play by play of what has been transpiring between the two of them.When she finally gets her own bearings she goes to her own psychologist to seek advice. Streep explains her moral dilemma and whether she should tell Thurman about her conflict of interest and stop treating her. The psychologist suggests that it is probably a fling that David will be done with in a couple of weeks and that if Streep has been very beneficial to Thurman then the disruption would probably cause Thurman to regress, Streep then feels it is in the best interest to continue to council Thurman no matter how personally embarrassing it may be.What follows is a lot of uncomfortable conversations between Streep and Thurman where we see Streep with all her remarkable talent, squirming at the details that Thurman is presenting. Of course the audience knows that this will not be a fling and things will continue to get more dicey for Streep as the couple's relationship seems to progress to the next level.This is a really fun movie and it is nice to see that Streep is just as brilliant in doing comedy as her usual drama fare.