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Prime is a movie about a hot 38 year old shiksa (Uma Thurman) who is fretting about dating a hot 23 year old Jewish painter (some new actor I don't know). Little does she know her therapist (Meryl Streep playing Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie) is her boyfriend's mother. Though the writer/director Ben Younger may have meant that to be a surprise it is given in away in all the commercials for the film since it is the film's point of differentiation from other angsty New York romantic dramedies.

Though the fact that Streep's character would actually continue seeing her patient after finding out her son was romantically involved with her is ludicrous and steers the film into sit-com, slap-sticky converstions between the two women, their relationship is actually more interesting I thought than Thurman's and the son's. Especially once they get past Streep hiding the secret it actually becomes kind of touching. I wish they spent a little more time with this part of the story.

Posted at November 3, 2005 01:29 PM