Prime Is Really Funny!, 10 November 2005 Author: wlandolfi-1 from New York, New York Just a few nights ago, I went to the movies with a friend of mine. We both decided to see PRIME partly because we both like Meryl Streep and also, because we heard that the movie was supposed to be funny. Well, we both liked it and not only that, but just about everyone in the theater seemed to feel the same way.As for the story, Uma Thurman plays a newly divorced 37 year old named Rafi who meets up with a 24 year old kid named Dave played by Bryan Greenburg. Before long, they start a relationship together despite the big age difference between the two. That in itself may not be significant. However, what IS significant is that all this time, Rafi is seeing a therapist named Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep) who turns out to be the mother of Dave, Rafi's love interest. What makes the movie so funny, I think, is the fact that we know all the angles by now although the characters don't at first. For instance, I found it very amusing to hear Rafi tell Lisa the intimate sexual details etc. pertaining to Dave because we KNOW exactly where the characters fit in before they do themselves. Perhaps my favorite scene in the movie involving all the main characters is when Lisa and her husband go in a Crate & Barrel store and spy on Dave and Rafi together. What I also found funny and ironic at the same time is that after Lisa discovers that Rafi's boyfriend is none other than her own son Dave, she goes to see a therapist herself to sort out the difficulties SHE now finds herself facing concerning her son's relationship. One of the problems Lisa has is that Rafi is not Jewish.What I would also like to say without giving too much away is that the movie had a realistic ending. Much was made about the age difference between Uma Thurman's character and Bryan Greenburg's character. I think that when push came to shove, their relationship together served a purpose but it was not meant to last as they were much too different. Rafi had been around longer and knew what she wanted and needed in life. Dave was much younger and still needed time to grow as a person. While I find that most movies like this would have a predictable and unrealistic ending, I felt that was not true with this movie. After watching PRIME the other night, I even said to my friend "What do you make of the ending?" because it made me think a little bit and she basically felt the same way. In conclusion, I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy and loves Meryl Streep as she was good in this movie as was Uma Thurman.