Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3608 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

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 just one problem none of them know this to be the case, slowly but surely they all cotton on to what's going on and who's who.

This is not an out and out comedy, a drama or a romantic comedy, it's basically got a good amount of all three and I think it's works really well, there's good chemistry between all three characters, but the scenes between Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep for me steal the show, many times during the film Streep is hilarious without even saying a word, the reactions to what she's being told in these therapist sessions are wonderful to watch.

This really looks at what people want and need in relationships very well indeed, both the good and the bad things that can happen and I found the way that they ended the film very different in that it's left to your imagination as to what happens next, but not in such a way that you're left thinking to yourself "is that it?".

It's a bit of a slow burner and the last half hour largely dispenses with the comedy side of things, but there's enough to keep you going with what goes on, maybe a touch drawn out toward the end, but not too much.

Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg are both effective in their roles, with a good turn by Jon Abrahams, but it's the superb performance by Meryl Streep that really makes this film and takes it to another level altogether.

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. The therapist she sees is his mother...
Unlike other reviewers, I thought Uma Thurman really shone in this movie, playing a very emotional divorcee, who falls for the younger man, with great sympathy and feeling. Meryl Streep is wonderful too.
The movie is laced with great humour, particularly the Jewish home scenes with the Jewish mother who wants her boy to grow up and meet a nice Jewish girl. Very stereotypical, but great laughs.
In summary, if you like romantic comedy...you should love this.

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 embarassment she has to keep listening because she decides she has to do what is best for her client and keep advising Thurman on her relationship.A film that tries to make
the viewer care about the characters at a deeper level but that fails to do so.