He’s the father figure she never had, and she renders the companionship he has been desperately looking for. And with Hathaway and De Niro going back and forth with the aforementioned elements, it’s cuteness overload. Fortunately there’s no hint of forced romance between the two, it’s been a while since the two leads of opposite sexes in a Hollywood movie were ‘just friends’.

If you’re a big fan of feel-good movies, this is one film that promises to deliver and leave you smiling. Watch it for Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway‘s splendid chemistry and comic brilliance.

It’s left to Hathaway to rescue what she can. Her Jules is by turns brittle, warm, self-possessed, vulnerable and impulsive, and Hathaway conveys all this without making her performance seem like an acting class. Few actors today can cry like she does on screen; even fewer can transform material like this into something halfway resonant.

The latest movie from the director of Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated has nothing to give and is most uncomplicated. The novelty factor of the premise of Nancy Meyers’s The Intern and the casting wears off within the first hour. The rest of the running time is spent on padding up the potentially interesting but severely underdeveloped encounter between generations.