Prime (Blu-ray)
A Therapeutic New Comedy
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 2, 2021
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg & Meryl Streep | |
Performer: | Jon Abrahams & Zak Orth | |
Directed by | Ben Younger | |
Music by | Ryan Shore | |
Screenwriting by | Ben Younger | |
Produced by | Jennifer Todd & Suzanne Todd | |
Director of Photography: | William Rexer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Follows a familiar boy-meets-girl scenario, but Younger turns the routine into combustible fun.
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Washington Post
Thurman oozes star quality as she essays a convincing transformation from miserable divorcee to giddy lover...
Sight and Sound
Rating: C+ --
"Prime" is an above average romantic comedy that still doesn't quite make the grade.
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ColeSmithey.com
Though it's derivative and it doesn't all hang together, it's still better and smarter than the average romantic comedy -- give me Ben Younger over Nora Ephron any day.
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Pajiba
Rating: 2/4 --
A cut above the formulaic romances Hollywood typically grinds out.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Really is nice, often charming, occasionally funny.
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Film Journal International
The writing and direction by Ben Younger is crisp and insightful enough to prevail, and the performances are all very good.
Ebert & Roeper
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.
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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- Sales Rank: 107,453
- UPC: 191329159484
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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