I really dug this movie. And I’m not a big sap that does nothing but watch romantic comedy movies. I think their relationship was adorable and that Meryl Streep’s character was great… I mean really… What would you do?
But DAMN THAT ENDING. I felt so good during the whole movie… and that ending crushed me. Ugh… I can’t stop thinking about how depressing that is.

even uma thurman couldn’t save this movie. mediocre at it’s best. meryl streep played such a horrible therapist.

I kept flashing on Uma Thurman in her Kill Bill role and Meryl Streep in her Bridges of Madison County part. Their characters in this movie were shadows of what they are capable of. Streep plays the therapist badly, but the Jewish mother well. All in all, it was an enjoyable hour and 46 minutes, wrought with classic irony as the viewer knows what the characters don’t about their relationships. I think writer/director Ben Younger tied it up as neatly as he could, and if the ending is a bit weak, perhaps it was the only reasonable way to draw it all to a close. As Streep says at one point, “You have to move on.”

I saw this after “A Lot Like Love” with my wife. I really liked A Lot Like Love and I think the part I liked is the romantic part. It is probaly important to remember how much one brings themselves to a movie. The story is not in a vacuum but how it resonates with your own experience and maybe that was the miss. But Kutcher and Peet somehow worked. Neither are actors of the theatre like Streep and Thurman has real talent (Pulp Fiction is remarkable), but the chemistry and backdrop of a Lot Like Love zings.

There is a lot to like here – Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep are very good. But the relationship between Thurman and David Bloomberg just doesn’t make it.

I saw this movie last weekend with my boyfriend, partly because he likes Uma Thurman and partly because he’s 23 and I’m 4 years older (so the plot was… minorly parallel to our lives). It was funny. I agree with wereldmuis that the unethical behavior of Meryl Streep’s character was unsettling, but there wouldn’t have been much of a plot line without it. The last five minutes weren’t what I would have wanted, but it’s still a good enough movie to request as a birthday gift, and provides some variety from my standards of You’ve Got Mail and While You Were Sleeping.

Prime is a solid movie, a good bittersweet romantic comedy. It’s enough of a fantasy to suck you in, but real enough to make you feel for the characters.

My only objection was to the unbelievable unethical behavior of Lisa (Meryl Streep), a therapist, who is being seen by the main character, Rafi (Uma Thurman). It was played for comedic effect, but what she was doing was so wrong-wrong-wrong that it was unfunny (although I admit, some moments really were quite hilarious, despite that). Aside from that though, it’s a good movie. Fine performances by Streep and Thurman, and Bryan Greenberg too.

This movie should have been good. Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman couldn’t save it. It was a lot longer than it should have been and was super boring.

Bo-ring!