Genre: Comedy
Tagline: A therapeutic new comedy.
Plot: Rafi (Uma Thurman), a 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David (Bryant Greenberg), a 23-year-old painter recently out of college. What happens when love at first sight meets the day-to-day realities of an adult relationship. Dr. Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep) is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of intimacy and finds out that Rafi’s new lover is—unfortunately for Lisa—her only son, David.David and Rafi must contend with a 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David’s traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi—a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of
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 Unlike many movies reaching theaters at this time of the year, Prime is not an Oscar contender, but it's a satisfying romantic comedy and a worthwhile diversion.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Prime" is such a movie, yet I must recommend it, because in its comedy of errors are actors who bring truth at least to their dialogue. --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Prime is pleasant and inoffensive, but all too forgettable.  --Dan Callahan
That sort of on-and-off quality is characteristic of the movie as a whole, for despite its title, “Prime” doesn’t earn terribly high grades. C--Frank Swietek
The great tensions in ''Prime" are not romantic but lifestyle-driven....charms with brains as well as heart --Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
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Meryl Streep
Adaptation., The Deer Hunter, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events |
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Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
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