Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Robert De Niro looking for an internship.
It was in the early 2000s that Nancy Meyers truly achieved success thanks to the romantic comedy What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
With 374 million dollars in worldwide revenue (for a budget of 70 million), it is the film directed by a woman having had the most commercial success for several years.
The director therefore continues on this path with Anything Can Happen, The Holiday and Not So Simple – all romantic comedies with five-star casts, widely appreciated by the public and critics.
After a six-year break, Nancy Meyers returned to cinema in 2015 with The New Intern, which turns away from her favorite genre. Through the story of Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who accepts a position as an intern on a fashion website created and managed by a thirty-year-old woman, the filmmaker focuses on a mentor/student relationship, while taking careful, as usual, to reverse the clichés.
The film thus addresses the complex relationships between two generations: that of boomers and that of millennials, respectively embodied on screen by the legend Robert De Niro and the talented Anne Hathaway, who we enjoy finding in such a role after seeing her as a martyred assistant in The Devil Wears Prada.
Thanks to the alchemy of this unique duo, The New Intern enjoyed great success in theaters, raking in $193 million in worldwide revenue for a budget of $35 million.
The New Intern by Nancy Meyers with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo…
Tonight on TF1 at 9:10 p.m.