70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Strong performances are hampered by both scenario and script in Nancy Meyers’s comedy, whose emotional third act proves too little, too late.
Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro bond in a likeable cross-generational comedy.
As you'd expect, Meyers handles the material with assurance and charm, and there's fun to be had in the odd-couple dynamic at her film's heart.
Anne Hathaway is on hectoring and charmless form in Nancy Myers’ latest saccharine-fest, and not even Robert De Niro can save it.
There is nothing original or earth-shattering about The Intern but it is perfectly pleasant and there is a nice chemistry between De Niro and Hathaway as he helps her achieve a less punishing work/ life balance.
The film is gentle fun and sweetly performed.
Nancy Meyers’s late-life work experience story, starring Robert De Niro, hits the appropriate equal opps notes.
Irksome in the extreme.
Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway on age and the art of acting
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