The Intern

Robert DeNiro, retired and widowed, applies for and gets a job as an intern (part of a new senior intern program) at a local tech startup. He is assigned to CEO Anne Hathaway, who clearly is too busy to need an intern. But DeNiro makes himself useful, is liked by everyone, and finds his way into the inner circle of trust, both in business and in life. While not a standard rom-com plot, it does have all the traits of typical rom-coms, most clearly that everything is too neat and tidy to be real. But we all check our critical minds in at the ticket booth and enjoy the banter, the mentorship, the obvious roadblocks to success that get solved with obvious solutions, and the fact that everyone lives happily ever after. A mediocre, friday night date film that knows exactly what it is, and does it adequately.
3 stars (out of 5)