Prime (film)
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| Directed by | Ben Younger |
| Produced by | Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd |
| Written by | Ben Younger |
| Starring | Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 21 September 2005 |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Prime is a 2005 American romantic comedy film starring Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep & Bryan Greenberg. It was written and directed by Ben Younger.
[edit] Plot
- Tagline: A therapeutic new comedy.
The film is a character comedy set in New York City. Rafi (Uma Thurman) is a recently divorced, 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan. David (Bryan Greenberg), a talented 23-year-old Jewish painter from the Upper West Side, falls in love with her. Rafi shares all her secrets with her therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep). Unbeknownst to Rafi, Lisa happens to be David's mother.
Following the relationship of this unlikely couple, the story touches upon the difficulties of marriage and partnerships. It explores the possibility that love is not enough to make a relationship work and becomes a philosophical display of emotion and comedy.
The mother, naturally, realizes the ethical and moral dilemma this poses her, she consults her own therapist. It is decided that she should continue the treatment and do what is best for her patient, as long as it is only a fling, which all signs do indicate of it being.
However, after several graphic therapy sessions, the relationship appears to be serious, and so Lisa has to tell Rafi that she is the mother of her new boyfriend. Rafi and David, however, break up at one point when Rafi finds David just lounging in her apartment, drinking beer and not looking after himself. A couple weeks later, David is enjoying a night on the town with his best friend; he gets drunk, and ends up sleeping with Sue, Rafi's friend from work.
David and Rafi start seeing each other again the same day, by coincidentally bumping into each other in the supermarket, and going back to David's place. Sue discusses the situation with a friend of hers at work, and realizes that David and Rafi got back together. Her friend just says 'Don't say a word' as Rafi comes in, and overhears it. David and Rafi have a large fallout. They try patching things up, with Rafi even meeting David's parents "properly", but ultimately don't see eye to eye on children or responsibilities and break up.
A year later, David with his friend walking out of a restaurant. A while later, he realizes he forgets his hat and goes back to the restaurant, where we recognize it as the first restaurant they had a proper date. He spots her but she doesn't see him so he rushes out the door, and hides. He defrosts the glass a bit to watch her a bit, and she turns around and just sees him. They share a smile before parting ways.
[edit] Trivia
- The ages of the two characters are 23 and 37 which are both prime numbers.
- The title might refer to a conversation between Thurman and Streep's characters, where the therapist encourages the patient to have the affair, saying that she is in her prime, her sexual peak.
- The role of Rafi was originally going to be played by Sandra Bullock. Bullock completed rehearsals with the Director and Greenberg, but pulled out just before filming began.
- Bryan Greenberg's trip to New York to film this movie is documented as part of HBO's semi-reality series Unscripted.
