Product: Prime
Rating: 3.0
Surprisingly entertaining and smart romantic comedy
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***The more I think of "Prime" (2005) the more I like it. Comparing to majority of recent romantic comedies, it is smart, interesting, and honest in the way it explores the relationship between an older woman and a younger man and many problems they have to encounter and to deal with.The movie written/directed by Ben Young takes place in the NYC and features a romance between Rafi (Uma Thurman), newly divorced 37 year old and 24 year old kid named Dave. Following her rather bitter and painful divorce, Rafi sees a psychoanalyst named Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep) who turns out to be the mother of Dave and to whom Rafi unknowingly tells all details including very intimate sexual ones pertaining to her relationship with a young man. When Lisa finds out who the young boyfriend of her patient is, she goes through more than one shock - what complicates the matter even more for Lisa is the fact that Dave is Jewish while Rafi is not. Meryl Streep keeps fascinating me in every movie she graces with her appearance. She makes any movie worth watching bringing depth, class, subtleties, and genuine emotions in all her characters. Uma Thurman was a match for Streep in their scenes together, and they were joy to behold.I loved the movie's ending - there were no questions and no obligatory explanations between the characters. It was not happy (in Hollywood sense) but realistic way to end the relationship. As time passes, life goes on, and we see two people who once had been happy together and even if they were not meant for each other, the memories of happiness would always stay with them.Perhaps the "Prime" hit a little close to home - I am a mother of two sons in their 20s and they are always on my mind. I do worry about them and about the choices they make and will make in their lives but I hope that I am not as crazy as Lisa Metzger was. :)3.5/5