The Intern

Robert DeNiro and Anna Hathaway lit this movie up with warm beautiful colors.

Robert has been acting now for the best part of four decades and he brought it on. DeNiro showcased why he is among the greats of Hollywood. He is a true Godfather.

I remember hearing this some years back, DeNiro giving Jay Z a tongue lashing and telling him "you don’t treat people that way", and Jay Z sulking while Beyoncé apologized for his behavior.

I don’t know how true that gist was but it sounded like something only De Niro could pull off. I can picture it now, with him using his Italian accent.

Anna Hathaway is an epitome of what I call innocent beauty. She appears so childlike and beautiful, you will want to cuddle and kiss her at the same time. She reminds me of my wife.

I have always been so engrossed by her beauty that I never noticed her flaws. This movie was the first time that I noticed she had ‘K’ legs.

De Niro plays the role of a retiree who had just lost his wife and could not figure out what he wanted to do for the rest of his life until he noticed an advert for elderly interns in a fast growing company.

Hathaway plays the role of the owner of the company. Young, innovative, likes to do things her own way. She rides a bicycle in the corridors of her company. She prefers everyone adopts a semi-formal attitude to work.

She’s a workaholic and her husband plays the role of the wife to allow her concentrate on her company while he raises their only daughter.

The intake of elderly interns was a pet project of her partner that she didn’t support but had to go along with to avoid lawsuits and for good PR.

DeNiro was assigned to her but as much she tried to ignore him,DeNiro slowly became indispensable to her and helped her through some pretty rough moments.

DeNiro not only became indispensable to her but the whole company as he slowly became the engine oil that made the whole place run smoothly.

The younger interns soon started to dress like him and he got himself some romantic attention in form of Rene Russo who was the in-house masseur.

Just imagine a company where during lunch break ,you could go for an in house massage .In fact, there was this scene where Russo was massaging DeNiro on his seat and he had an erotic response.

The younger interns sitting next to him noticed and immediately passed a newspaper to him to cover the area of mischief.

After Russo left, DeNiro and the younger interns had fist bumps showing the boyhood camaraderie always exists no matter the age difference.

The movie explores relationships between working mothers and sit-at-home dads, which is a situation we have started to face at home in Nigeria. Although, here it’s mostly the case of women earning  more than their husbands.

The movie is warm, funny and has the feel good factor.