Thursday, November 03, 2005

Meryl Streep does her best Jewish mama jive in the new film Prime. Streep plays Lisa Metzger, a therapist, whose patient Rafi (Uma Thurman) divorces her husband and meets David Bloomberg (Bryan Greenberg; most known for playing Jake in the tv show One Tree Hill). David also happens to be Lisa's son. Thurman's Rafi is gentile and once Lisa finds out that David is Rafi's new steady she doesn't take kindly to it. It's not a bad film and it never crosses that line of being ridiculous; in fact it's quite well done. Greenberg looks like a cross between Angel's David Boreanaz and a young Matt Dillon and I thought this was one of the best roles I've seen Thurman in.

Rotten Remake: Alanis Morissette (Ms. Jagged Little Pill herself) has done a cover of Seal's ditty called Crazy. Why? Why? Why? Stop the insanity!!!!! Morissette is so talented and creative that she could have done two original songs that were better than this remake. It doesn't capture the dance floor beat of Seal's original and Morissette doesn't capture the urgency that Seal compelled us to listen to.

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