This film has one potentially amusing idea - the shrink (Meryl Streep) discovers she is treating her son's (age- and religious-wise unsuitable) lover. So the height of funniness is the latter describing the son's penis and the viewer knowing that professional detachment is creaking at the seams. That's it. Then there is eventually closure.

This is a really good life film, Rafi (Uma Thurman) is both a patient and a lover, David (Bryan Greenberg) plays her lover and is the son of a therapist (Meryl Streep), there's just one problem none of them know this to be the case, slowly but surely they all cotton on to what's going on and who's who.

This is not an out and out comedy, a drama or a romantic comedy, it's basically got a good amount of all three and I think it's works really well, there's good chemistry between all three characters, but the scenes between Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep for me steal the show, many times during the film Streep is hilarious without even saying a word, the reactions to what she's being told in these therapist sessions are wonderful to watch.

This really looks at what people want and need in relationships very well indeed, both the good and the bad things that can happen and I found the way that they ended the film very different in that it's left to your imagination as to what happens next, but not in such a way that you're left thinking to yourself "is that it?".

It's a bit of a slow burner and the last half hour largely dispenses with the comedy side of things, but there's enough to keep you going with what goes on, maybe a touch drawn out toward the end, but not too much.

Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg are both effective in their roles, with a good turn by Jon Abrahams, but it's the superb performance by Meryl Streep that really makes this film and takes it to another level altogether.

Simple love story complicated by the age gap.
23 year old falls falls for a 30's something recent divorcee.
To complicate matters, he's Jewish, she isn't. The therapist she sees is his mother...
Unlike other reviewers, I thought Uma Thurman really shone in this movie, playing a very emotional divorcee, who falls for the younger man, with great sympathy and feeling. Meryl Streep is wonderful too.
The movie is laced with great humour, particularly the Jewish home scenes with the Jewish mother who wants her boy to grow up and meet a nice Jewish girl. Very stereotypical, but great laughs.
In summary, if you like romantic comedy...you should love this.

Prime has a very humorous story to it: therapist Meryl Streep gets to hear about her client's - Uma Thurman - sex life with Streep's own son which though making Streep cringe with embarassment she has to keep listening because she decides she has to do what is best for her client and keep advising Thurman on her relationship.A film that tries to make
the viewer care about the characters at a deeper level but that fails to do so.

A fantastic laugh out loud comedy with amazing delivery and pace from Meryl Streep. I do enjoy romantic comedies generally, but this pushed the boundaries of the genre with moments of real art and insight too. Thoroughly enjoyable.