Episode 99 - The Intern

Nancy Meyers' most recently helmed vehicle, 2015's "The Intern"
once again shows that she is out of touch with society and unable
to make a movie that doesn't pander to the lowest common
denominator. This cliche fish-out-of water story is just the same
lame joke flopping around repeatedly wishing it could swim. 


And although this movie is set in modern-day Brooklyn, it
pretends like the idea of an Internet company that sells clothes
is something new, and it populates its cast of only white
characters with people who have incredibly backward ideas about
working women and men staying home to raise the kids.


Anne Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, the ultra-hands-on founder and
CEO of a fast-growing fashion startup called About the Fit. She
is overworked and struggling with deciding whether to hire a CEO
to replace her so she can keep her stay-at-home dad of a husband
happy. The idea of delegating tasks and hiring a nanny never
occurred to these billionaires.


Robert De Niro plays Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who
starts to work as an intern at Hathaway's startup company. He is
a two-dimensional, sickly sweet character who we feel is actually
a weasel in sheep's clothing, because he takes every opportunity
to brown-nose Hathaway in order to move up in the company and
into her life.


Rene Russo plays the company's in-house massage therapist, but
she seems more like an in-house prostitute with the
overly-sexualized massages she is constantly giving De Niro, who
she of course fall in love with, because they're both not young
and near each other.


Andrew Rannells plays Hathaway's right-hand man at the company
who appears to actually call all the shots weirdly, because he
secretly has meetings with the board without Hathaway being there
and is the one who forces her to take on an intern to shadow her.
But really Nancy Meyers just wanted her main character to have a
gay best friend underling, so it doesn’t matter that his job
makes no sense.


And two-thirds of the "Workaholics" main cast are also in this
movie—Adam DeVine as a sexually-harassing co-worker of De Niro's,
and Anders Holm as Hathaway's unhappy and unfaithful stay-at-home
dad husband. Poor Blake.


Join us as we dive into Nancy Meyers' bizarre psyche once again,
wonder why she equates carrying a handkerchief with being a "real
man," and if she actually is the feminist she so claims to be.


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