The Intern

Robert De Niro is a great actor. He has been doing great work for decades and earned both of his Oscars and each of his seven nominations and probably should have won more than he did. Here, however, despite his top billing, the film belongs to Anne Hathaway.
Anne Hathaway is not Miranda Preistley. She is Jules Ostin. She started a company, About the Fit, just eighteen months before this film began and business is booming, they have already hit their five year goal. But her investors want a more seasoned CEO but Jules isn't hot about the idea. Robert De Niro stays appropriately mum on the issue. He is, after all, just the intern, Ben Whitaker. Sick of retirement, he wants to get back out there and though Jules was rather reluctant, he won her over. He's organized, helpful and loves staying busy and learning new stuff. Plus, he has experience that should not be taken for granted. He urges a younger co-worker, Jason (Adam Devine) to actually apologize in person, rather than just send a million texts or emails to the girl he likes but ruined things with before they even began.
Ben saves Jules from getting into her car just after her driver drank from his flask and is willing to fly to San Francisco so she can meet a potential CEO.
There is more to this film than can a woman have it all? Jules's husband, Matt (Anders Holm) gave up his own promising career to become a stay-at-home dad to their young daughter. Jules is a great mom, though the other moms inform her that she can just buy something for a school event because they know she won't have time to make it from scratch because she's just too busy. Unfortunately, Matt feels left out as her business takes up so much of her time, so he steps out on her. Ben catches him and struggles with this knowledge. Fortunately, before he has to break Jules's heart, she admits it to him. She caught some naughty texts on Matt's phone. But she wants to work the whole thing out though she is devastated. Ben doesn't think that things are fixable.
Jules hires the CEO that said all the right things but Ben urges her not to do that just so her marriage can be saved because it isn't right. No one knows the company like she does and no one else will have her attention to details. Even her husband admits that he messed up big time and promises that he will be better. Hopefully he will be.
Should have Ben have confined in Jules about her husband? Anne Hathaway's Andi had done that in The Devil Wears Prada despite Miranda already knowing, here the tables are turned. Jules already knew and came out with the information. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer for that. Your friend could potentially become furious regardless of when you reveal the information.
Jules is also fortunately nothing like Miranda. She is laid back, barely has time to eat, rides her bike throughout the office so she can get some exercise, but she always put together. Her clothes are to die for. She works hard, and tries to appreciate her employees though her personal assistant, Becky (Christina Scherer) sometimes feels left out. I just don't get why everyone was warning Ben that Jules was so hard to work with.
There are the over the top moments, like when Ben and some of other interns break into Jules's parent's house to retrieve her mom's laptop because Jules accidentally sent a nasty email to her mother, and one of the sad reasons why Jules wants to stay with Matt is so she isn't buried alone. Yikes. Robert De Niro can't believe he's the feminist in the film. You won't believe it either, but he is.
Thank goodness this film contains solid performances all around, not just from Hathaway and De Niro but the supporting players are also great, Rene Russo and Linda Lavin as De Niro's love interests and Andrew Rannells, playing someone different from his usual, as Jules's right hand man at the company. The film is also great to look at. However, Jules's home and Ben's home could be on the same street, they look so similar. Whatever.
Most of this film won't stay with you long, but it was enjoyable. Grade: B