Movie Review-Prime

The first thing I am wondering is unrelated to the movie itself. Why is it that movie theaters are never a comfortable temperature? The movie theater in which I saw Prime was freezing. I had my winter coat on the whole entire time. It was like they had the air conditioning on or something.

Comfort aside, I did enjoy this movie. It was absolutely hilarious. Uma Thurman plays Rafi, a woman in her mid-30s who has just gone through a divorce and is seeing a therapist, Lisa (Meryl Streep). Rafi meets a great new guy, David (Bryan Greenberg) and they hit it off right away. Rafi is ecstatic in her new relationship, but at the same time a little unsure if he's the right person, as he is quite a bit younger than she is. Lisa encourages her to go for it and enjoy herself.

Neither therapist nor patient realize right away that Rafi is dating Lisa's son. I loved the moment of dawning horror when Lisa realized whom Rafi had been talking about (in intimate detail) in all those therapy sessions. It was far more than a mother would want to know about her son's sex life; that's for sure. And Lisa is far different as a parent than a therapist. Where she had encouraged Rafi to go for it and not worry about whether the relationship was going to go anywhere, she had strongly encouraged her son not to start something with someone who wasn't Jewish and was older than he (she didn't know at first that it was Rafi he was talking about).

Lisa goes to her own therapist and asks for advice on how to handle the situation. In my opinion, she gets some bad advice, although if she'd gotten better advice the movie wouldn't have been as good, I guess. Lisa's therapist said that if she thought this was just going to be a fling, then she wouldn't be serving her client's best interest by terminating therapy with her. The reason I thought this was bad advice was that it would only work if Lisa was right about it turning out to be a brief fling, and she had no way of knowing whether or not it would be. Hoping it would be a fling wasn't the same thing. And the longer the relationship continued, the harder it would be to tell Rafi that she needed to find another therapist and why. But anyway, Lisa follows the bad advice and ends up hearing more and more details that she really doesn't want to know.

Meryl Streep is great as the therapist and mother to David. Rafi and David are a great couple and the viewer really hopes they will be able to work things out. The movie did drag a little in spots, but mostly it was funny.