Prime (Full Screen) PG-13

Prime (Full Screen)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 7, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 91,792
Rating: 2/4 -- A movie as weirdly titled as it is constructed, the romantic comedy Prime is proof that even the great Meryl Streep occasionally slips up in her acting choices. Full Review
Toronto Star
Oct 28, 2005
Rating: 7/10 -- Like most relationship films it has a tendency to self-indulgence. Prime is less about relationships than it is about life lessons - a funny, bittersweet one; but that is unfortunately what a lot of relationships turn out to be. Full Review
ComingSoon.net
Apr 25, 2011
3 stars out of 5 -- Thurman exudes confidence and sensuality. Streep's on good form too.
Total Film
Jun 1, 2006
Follows a familiar boy-meets-girl scenario, but Younger turns the routine into combustible fun. Full Review
Washington Post
Oct 28, 2005
Thurman oozes star quality as she essays a convincing transformation from miserable divorcee to giddy lover...
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 2006
Rating: 0.5/4 -- Not very funny, I didn't like it. Full Review
Hollywood Report Card
Nov 20, 2006
The writing and direction by Ben Younger is crisp and insightful enough to prevail, and the performances are all very good.
Ebert & Roeper
Oct 31, 2005

Product Description:

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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  • UPC: 025192630729
  • Shipping Weight: 0.31/lbs (approx)
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