Product: Prime
Rating: 3.0
Almost Recommended
"Prime" scores a few points for trying something different, but its aspirations do not sustain its length. Uma Thurman is a 37-year old divorcee, and Bryan Greenberg is a 23-year old aspiring artist, and the two are involved in an older-younger romance. The ads for this film made it look like more of a comedy than it is, and they also made much more of the fact that Uma's therapist (Meryl Streep) turns out to be Bryan's mother. Those are just parts of this film, which shoots for an offbeat examination of how sometimes we love and learn and move on, and how that's an okay thing. Unfortunately, the movie kind of drags and meanders its way to this realization, some scenes seem undeveloped, and others just seem downright stolen from better movies (like "Notting Hill"). It's a valiant effort from a young director. Perhaps he'll hit closer to the mark next time out. Worth a look on cable, not really worth buying.