{"id":21864,"date":"2016-01-18T04:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2016-08-13T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T08:27:12","slug":"the-intern-2015-blu-raydvddigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/the-intern-2015-blu-raydvddigital\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intern (2015) [Blu-Ray\/DVD\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"intern\"<\/a>Robert DeNiro gets a lot of crap for basically losing the drive and just giving up and starring in any film he can get a role in. Granted, those arguments are valid, but in films like \u201cThe Intern\u201d there\u2019s at least some of the fine actor we once knew and will always know even after DeNiro has passed on. DeNiro has something of a twinkle and spark in \u201cThe Intern\u201d where he conveys a lot of the charm we know him for. I don\u2019t know if he was really just phoning it in the entire time, but in \u201cThe Intern\u201d he plays the role well and works off of the potential sitcom trappings director Nancy Meyer tries to peg him in to.\u00a0 DeNiro plays seventy something Ben Whittaker, a man who\u2019s lived a long life with a good career, and has lost his wife years before we meet him.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s spent the rest of his time travelling around the world and getting in touch with his son, but is still very restless. Hoping for a new chapter in life, Ben enters a work program for a dot com company that\u2019s specifically hiring senior citizens. When he gets the job, he begins working under Jules, an ambitious young woman on the verge of forming a media empire who finds her marriage and relationship with her daughter crumbling under the weight of her success. With Ben garnering some sympathy toward Jules\u2019 dilemma, the two bond as Ben tries to help Jules garner some clarity, while gaining insight in to her stressful life. Surely, it\u2019s a movie like \u201cAbout Schmidt\u201d about a senior citizen looking for a life after his marriage, but the movie is less about the meaningless of life, and more about how character Ben doesn\u2019t have it so bad.<\/p>\n

He had youth, he had ambition, and now that he\u2019s experienced it twice, he can now just relax, and he\u2019s content with that. Being without a job and a marriage does not mean one is purposeless. Meanwhile when we meet Ben working in a chic office without walls, where the workers live on their computers and cell phones, DeNiro comes off surprisingly dignified. \u201cThe Intern\u201d doesn\u2019t paint Ben as a man stuck in the digital age, but as a man who accepts today\u2019s generation and tries his best to adapt. This involves hanging on to his email where he anxiously hopes to be called upon by his superior Jules. Even the relationship he develops with a trio of comedic interns ends up quite charming and entertaining, as they learn from his experience and use it as a means of bettering themselves in the professional and personal world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Intern\u201d promises again and again to become this stale sitcom, but surprisingly it\u2019s a very unique and charming drama comedy with DeNiro carrying the weight of the film. Anne Hathaway is great as Jules, a young upstart CEO for a dot com company that is promising to destroy her personal life with her husband and her daughter. Hathaway succeeds in playing such a tragic character bound by traditional relationship roles and finds her ambition is ruining the dynamic in her marriage. Granted, \u201cThe Intern\u201d can be a bit sickly sweet with some goofy moments injected, including a silly break in scene after Jules sends her mom a graphic email, as well as the romance between Rene Russo and DeNiro\u2019s character that begins with a groan and literally goes nowhere.<\/p>\n

In either case, \u201cThe Intern\u201d is a charming and simple drama comedy with some genuine sincerity and heart to it. The Blu-Ray release<\/strong> comes with a DVD copy and Digital copy. Among the special features, there\u2019s \u201cLearning from Experience,\u201d a five minute obligatory EPK with interviews with director Meyers, and other cast members. \u201cDesigns on Life\u201d is a six minute visit with the set decorators, production designers, and costume designers, as well as interviews with various cast members, and director Meyers who discusses the film\u2019s look. Finally there\u2019s \u201cThe Three Interns\u201d a six minute look at Zack Pearlman, Adam DeVine, and Jason Orley, all of whom have funny supporting roles as young eager co-workers. They speak about working with DeNiro and on the film.<\/p>\n