Ben Younger's shallow comedy-drama about the perils of intergenerational, mixed-faith romance in densely populated Manhattan — where everyone is in everyone else's business and your therapist just might turn out to be your boy toy's
yiddishe mama — returns to the played-out vein of Jewish stereotypes strip-mined by Philip Roth. Therapist Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep) runs her practice from a cozy office adjacent to the rambling Upper West Side apartment where she raised her family. Teenage daughter Dinah (Naomi Aborn) still lives at home, but restless 23-year-old aspiring artist David (Bryan Greenberg) has moved in with his maternal grandparents on the Lower Eas...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins