The Intern is the new movie starring Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. De Niro won his Oscar for "Raging Bull" in 1980 (Best Actor) and Hathaway won her Oscar for Les Miserables in 2012 (Best Supporting Actress). The generational gap between the two actors is the main emphasis of the movie's story. De Niro plays Ben, a 70 year old widower who discovers his retirement isn't all that he had hopped it'd be. He takes advantage of a "Senior Intern Program" to get back into the work force and quickly has to adjust to the new technology and social order of the new millennium.
Hathaway plays Jules, the founder of an online fashion site that is growing by leaps and bounds. However the success of her business comes at the expense of the personal life of the company's CEO and founder. Enter Ben (De Niro) whose old school ways of chivalry and nose to the grindstone work ethic changes the entire company's attitude and it's corporate culture.
The Intern is a movie with a great trailer. As a matter of fact my fear was that the movie used all of it's good bits for the trailer, but the movie's preview doesn't even scratch the surface of the good stuff in this movie. The movie is really sweet, with out being schmaltzy. It's "Ooo and Aaa cute", not "kittens in a box cute". It's a movie that deals with life and love in a very funny and sincere way. De Niro carries the movie with his old school charm. He's like a grandfather to everyone in the movie and teaches his young male colleagues about old fashioned chivalry and manners; something sorely missing in most young men today (just my opinion).
The Intern is rated PG-13 and it has a run time of 121 minutes. On my "Hollywood Popcorn Scale" I rate The Intern a JUMBO.
Hollywood Hernandez
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