Things aren't going well for Rafi (Uma Thurman). She's just come out of a relationship, and now she's met a wonderful new guy, but it turns out he's younger than she is. A lot younger than she is. Fourteen years, to be exact.
To make matters worse, she is a career woman, and he isn't much for a career. She tries to get him to paint more, but he just doesn't know what he wants to do yet. He does seem to love her though, at least that is genuine. But when it turns out that her therapist is his mother, maybe it would just be easier to find someone else.
The movie takes a look at the difficulties of the relationship from just about every angle possible. Rafi and her friends look at the fact that David loves her, so they are actually very supportive of her.
Meanwhile, her therapist (Meryl Streep) is the first among them to realize that her patient is dating her son, and she decides to keep her mouth shut just in case it is a short-term relationship, but naturally that would be too easy.
Some of the best lines come out when Rafi tells her about their relationship and she has to keep her mouth shut, because she isn't supposed to know who it is - much less that it is her son!
Finally, David is doing a lot of growing up, and to his credit, he does seem to love Rafi in his way. But he's probably not quite ready for what she needs, and when they break up towards the end, he spends the night with one of her coworkers, which is probably not a good choice.
David and Rafi do get back together near the end of the movie, and he offers her his love and even the opportunity to make a baby together, but she realizes that it would be a mistake, so they part ways, only seeing each other through a glass door a year later. This ending is a bit odd, but it's a decent ending - anything else would have just felt too contrived.
Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, and for language.
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