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  • Actors: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Jon Abrahams, Zak Orth, Bryan Greenberg
  • Directors: Ben Younger
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 25 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000FTXMEM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,484 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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New York City forms the backdrop for writer/director Ben Younger's (BOILER ROOM) PRIME, a gentle comedy that weaves a tale of two lovers trying to keep the flame alive as an unusual obstacle is hurled in their path. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a newly divorced 37-year-old career woman who regularly spills her woes to her therapist, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep). Rafi's love life takes a sudden upturn when she meets Bryan Greenberg (David Bloomberg), a penniless painter who lives on the Lower East Side with his grandparents and, at 23, is significantly younger than Rafi. Uptown girl Rafi isn't used to such differences in age and location, but the sex is great, and Bryan seems attentive enough, so she jubilantly tells Lisa in passionate detail about their blossoming relationship. The trouble is, the more Rafi tells her, the more Lisa realizes that the hot young boy-toy Rafi is busy seducing on a nightly basis is, in fact, her own son. The problems mount, with Rafi's status as a gentile not going over well with Bryan's Jewish family, and Lisa unable to decide whether to stop the therapy sessions or not. Younger delivers a heady mixture of laughs and salient points in a film that settles snugly into familiar early-21st-century territory for romantic-comedy fans. He peppers the action with product placement, warm pastel colors in spacious FRIENDS-style New York apartments, and bitter recriminations that quickly turn to passionate makeup sex on more than one occasion. The director clearly enjoys a love affair with the city, with swooping shots throughout of the late-night Manhattan skyline providing the perfect setting as his two leads act out their bittersweet union.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Uma whoooaarrr...!!!, 23 Aug 2006
Went to see this with the girlfriend in protest thinking it was just a slushy chick flick but to my surprise I loved it. The story gets going pretty quickly and in a real unconventional way Uma is stunning as the 30 something divorcee. The scenes between her and Meryl Streep (once she finds out her new toy boy is actually her Meryl's son)are hilarious, particularly, the 'finding the clitoris' scene!.

Well worth a watch me thinks and guys don't be put off if your girlfriend arrives home with a copy....!

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a mixed bag, 13 April 2007
By RD - See all my reviews
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The first few minutes of this movie irritated me as it seemed to go nowhere, and I'm not the biggest fan of Uma Thurman. I'm glad I stuck with it though as it progressed into rather unusual, but successful romantic comedy.

It isn't your typical boy-meets-girl chick flick because things are a little more complicated for Raphe and David. He's 23 and Jewish (with a family who won't let up about him marrying a Jewish girl) and she's 37 and divorced all of a week when they meet.
To make matters even more complicated his mother is Raphe's therapist, played by the absolutely fantastic Meryl Streep. At first everyone is clueless about the link so you get Dave's mum encouraging Raphe on one end and telling David he'll be the death of her on the other. When she finally becomes privy to the situ she has to listen to intimate details about her son while keeping a straight face. Hilarious scenes ensue.

A look at love with an age gap and the problems it really throws up and how a mother learns about the man her little boy has become. Good film once you take the time to get into it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A charming, bittersweet and entertaining romantic comedy., 6 Mar 2007
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a well written, often laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes sad romantic comedy about love and relationships.

Writer/Director Ben Younger said that his inspiration for the film was that at one stage he was going out with a woman who was having therapy, and his mother was a therapist. As his mother had remarried and did not share his surname, he asked himself what would happen if his partner accidentally went to his mum for therapy, and then he thought "that's a great idea for a movie."

However, although this is indeed one of the major story elements and the source of many of the best laughs in the film, there is quite a lot more to this film than that coincidence.

Uma Thurman plays Raphael (Rafi) Gardet, a 37 year old, highly successful career woman in the fashion industry, who at the start of the film has just got divorced. By chance at a film she is introduced to David Bloomborg (played by David Greenberg), a 23 year old who wants to be an artist. The two are hugely physically attracted to each other: before they realise quite how large the age difference is David invites Rafi out on a date, and although she is very nervous of the difference in age, Rafi enjoys his company so much that they start a passionate affair.

As soon as Rafi walks into the office of her therapist Lisa Motzgor (Meryl Streep), Lisa can see that Rafi has met someone who is making her happy. Initialy Lisa is pleased for Rafi and encourages her in the relationship. It is only two or three sessions later, as Rafi starts to pour out details of the relationship, that Lisa first suspects that Rafi may be dating her own son. Soon she realises that this is indeed the case and reacts with horror to the understanding that she has been encouraging a divorcee more than half again his age to have an affair with her son. This would have been difficult enough for anyone, but to make matters worse, though she is tolerant in most ways Lisa has an extreme hostility bordering on bigotry against mixed marriages and does not want her Jewish son to marry a gentile.

This leads to a comedy of embarrassment, with Lisa's behaviour becoming increasingly preposterous as she tries with disastrous lack of success to do what is right for both her son and her client. Meanwhile Rafi is trying to cope with the fact that David is in some ways a wonderful man who can make her very happy, and in other ways much less mature than she needs in a long term partner. All the characters in the film have some difficult decisions to make and at times the film is decidedly bittersweet.

The most difficult part of this film to make must have been the ending. Ben Younger and the cast play this in a very grown-up way: some people will like the ending but it will leave others unsatisfied - I can't really say more without giving it away.

There is some really good acting in this film. The three main actors, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Meryl Streep are all superb. Ato Essandoh delivers a brilliantly memorable cameo as the doorman of the apartment building where Rafi lives. It seems to be compulsory these days for romantic comedies to include an obnoxious sexist lothario as the hero's best friend, and this part is played with slightly more sophistication than usual by Jon Abrahams. At least, he is sometimes more sophisticated - that's when his character isn't exercising his original technique for dumping a girlfriend by means of a custard pie in her face.


Overall this is a very cleverly crafted and entertaining film. Just don't expect it to be all sweetness and light.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, ironic and clever - a Friday evening well-spent!
What a clever film idea - loved the script but still stewing about the ending...perhaps it couldn't be any other way and still be the film it was intending to be. Read more
Published 1 month ago by G. Black

3.0 out of 5 stars Thurman in stereotypical role but Younger picture is oddly likable
Rafi (Thurman) meets David (Greenberg) on a night out and the two instantly become attracted to one another. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Stampy

4.0 out of 5 stars Prime
Good quality, brilliant film with good story line and good cast.The story is about a therapist, whoose client is having an affair with her son. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. R. Oliver

1.0 out of 5 stars One idea film
This film has one potentially amusing idea - the shrink (Meryl Streep) discovers she is treating her son's (age- and religious-wise unsuitable) lover. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Hamsun

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a romantic, comedy, drama
This is a really good life film, Rafi (Uma Thurman) is both a patient and a lover, David (Bryan Greenberg) plays her lover and is the son of a therapist (Meryl Streep), there's... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Dazman

5.0 out of 5 stars Really liked it
Simple love story complicated by the age gap.
23 year old falls falls for a 30's something recent divorcee.
To complicate matters, he's Jewish, she isn't. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Dodster

3.0 out of 5 stars lots of humour but won't tug at your heart-strings
Prime has a very humorous story to it: therapist Meryl Streep gets to hear about her client's - Uma Thurman - sex life with Streep's own son which though making Streep cringe with... Read more
Published 24 months ago by dan the fan

5.0 out of 5 stars go Meryl
A fantastic laugh out loud comedy with amazing delivery and pace from Meryl Streep. I do enjoy romantic comedies generally, but this pushed the boundaries of the genre with... Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2007 by Fire Watcher

3.0 out of 5 stars [3.5]--"Prime" is an entertaining movie but a little drawn at the end
If I didn't know better I would say this is an infomercial for all Jewish mothers who are really concerned that their sons marry nice Jewish girls, have Jewish kids.... Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2007 by Jenny J.J.I.

5.0 out of 5 stars When you know...you know (it's good)
I adored this film. Don't judge it on the cheesy American story line, this is a real gem of a film, in my mind on a par with 'This Years Love'...another real treat. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2007 by G. Spink

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