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      2005, Romance/Comedy, 1h 45m

      118 Reviews 50,000+ Ratings

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      Though Streep is dependably terrific in her role, the rest of the movie is too sitcom-ish, and the romance itself is dull. Read critic reviews

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      Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a 37-year-old divorced Catholic businesswoman falling for David (Bryan Greenberg), a 23-year-old Jewish artist. With the help of her therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), Rafi tries to overcome her insecurities and accept the age difference between her and David. But when Lisa learns more about her client's new love, she realizes that David is her son. As Lisa tries to separate the couple, Rafi and David fear that they may not be right for each other after all.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Language|Including Dialogue|Sexual Content)

      • Genre: Romance, Comedy

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Ben Younger

      • Producer: Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd

      • Writer: Ben Younger

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $22.7M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Universal Pictures

      • Production Co: Team Todd

      • Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS, Surround

      • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

      Cast & Crew

      Meryl Streep
      Uma Thurman
      Bryan Greenberg
      Palmer Brown
      David Anzuelo
      Adriana Biasi
      Naomi Aborn
      Mark Gordon
      Bob Yari
      Ryan Shore
      William Rexer
      Kristina Boden
      Mark Ricker
      Paul D. Kelly
      Carol Silverman
      Melissa Toth

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      • Aug 14, 2013

        A lightly neurotic Shiksa divorcee of a certain age falls in love with a twenty-something who turns out to be the ridiculously good-looking son of her very Jewish psychoanalyst. Really quite sweet and Annie Hall-esque, down to the bittersweet closing montage of Rafi and David's time together. The sprinkling of Jewishisms is more earnest (than in Allen fare) and contemporary with the Jewish hip hop soundtrack, and the mistaken identity plot is funny but not too embarrassing or uncomfortable. The moment of revelation isn't "Greek in scope"; it's quiet and stunned. Bryan Greenberg is just really, really, ridiculously good-looking, and Uma Thurman is charming in a way I haven't appreciated in the past. I love the scene with Morris having to hide in the closet, then being startled by the cat, then feeding the cat beer, then sneezing because he's allergic, and subsequently, giving himself away.

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      • Oct 29, 2011

        Disposable and enjoyable fluff that's funny, touching and vascillates between the realistic and the hyper-glossy. I was with it until about the last 15 minutes, when it started pulling punches and went saccharine on me. Lazily acted (even by Meryl Streep), but sharply written otherwise... I'm damning it by faint praise, aren't I? I was mostly interested to see this because I liked Bryan Greenberg in Unscripted, where we saw him totally hungover trying to shoot the furniture store scenes. Take Nora Ephron and water her down, and you get a movie like this: it's not terrible, but that's about the best I can say for it.

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      • Jun 23, 2011

        Loved this, it was new and exciting and showed you that no matter what age you can really have fun. I love Greenberg too, he is an absolute babe.

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      • May 13, 2011

        I enjoyed this movie. It was really awkward and Meryl Streep's character should have sought a second opinion from her supervisor. It's funny because a trainer doing an Ethics training mentioned this movie as an excellent example of an ethical dilemma in counseling and what not to do about it.

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