Seen once, that’s enough. But… well, it was better than I expected, it seemed a silly thing from the trailer, something that pretended to be funny but wasn’t really convincing; I watched it only out of curiosity because I saw it on Netflix and I was pleasantly surprised that it was nothing like I expected - although it had that kitsch scene with the not-really-appropriate massage that was not funny, it was embarrassing because of how stupid and out of place it was.
I didn’t like that it ended so abruptly, no, it felt like something was missing. Not much, but something, maybe a scene of the company running smoothly, just something, I don’t know. It just left me with a sense that something was not finished, and the ending is important, it’s how you remember it afterwards, so no, I am not interested in seeing it again after all.
It should be about Ben Whittaker, the intern, a widower of 70, so retired, who has tried many things to feel like life is going on: he has travelled a lot, gone out, tried hobbies, but still feels alone and without purpose so when he sees that a young internet company is trying a senior internship program, he applies. He makes a video, asks advice from his young grandson on what some stuff is, but he makes it to the interview and is hired. He is a very positive, likeable character, who makes friends with many people there and even starts a relationship with the in-house masseuse Fiona.
Given the title of the movie, he should be the protagonist, but he’s actually little more than what we are, the audience, he watches Jules’ life and work. This is what the movie is about. Jules Ostin who created an internet clothes-selling company by herself. She now has 220 people working for her, a stay-at-home husband and a lovely daughter, and barely any time to breathe. They tell her she should hire a CEO to run the company, she might have more time to herself but it would all be different, and maybe it wouldn’t be the same thing it is now. She speaks to her mom only on the phone, and sleeps very little. She loves her family, both her daughter and her husband who had a job too before but left it to give her the chance to build her dream, he believed in her and chose the family. Which made it all the more painful when she finds out that he is cheating on her. We just learned it when Ben sees him with another woman, while he was trying to drive Paige back home. Jules is hurt but doesn’t want to give up on them. She’s seriously thinking of hiring the last CEO she interviewed. Matt asked her about every one she met, and now it seems it will really happen. She tells him this will be good for the two of them. Ben tells her she should think hard on it, if she really want her company to change, because nobody could give it the care she puts into it. But at the end Matt hurries to tell her that she must not do it for him, that she must do what she thinks it’s best for her because he loves her and wants to be happy, and is about to confess when she tells him she knows, and he explains that he got lost along the way but he loves her and they can make it, he can do better and just wants her to be happy. So she will not hire any CEOs, she’ll keep her company as she loves it. And she goes to tell Ben the news, but he’s not at work that day so she goes to him, at his old park where he is.
And it ends there. Just like that. We don’t see them talking about it or anything that happens afterwards, just that she went to him. And maybe that now she’s breathing life again, a little more freely than she did before.
Ben Wittaker - Robert De Niro
Jules Ostin - Anne Hathaway
Fiona - Rene Russo
Matt - Anders Holm
Paige - Jojo Kushner
Jason - Adam Devine
Becky - Christina Scherer
Lewis - Jason Orley
ITA lo stagista inaspettato
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