Introduce
The Intern is a 2015 American buddy comedy-drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway.
The plot follows a 70-year-old widower who becomes a senior intern at an online fashion website, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the company's workaholic CEO.
Seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker is a retired executive from DEX One.
After retirement, he traveled the world and learnt all kinds of new skills, but found that without a set routine, he quickly became bored.
One day, he sees an ad for a newly conceived position of senior intern at a fast-growing e-commerce fashion startup in Brooklyn, called “About The Fit”.
Founder and CEO Jules Ostin had previously agreed to a community outreach program where seniors would intern at the firm.
So, he creates a cover letter video, telling them all about himself and the reason for his application.
Ben impresses everyone and becomes one of the four hired.
Ben is assigned to work with Jules, who’s been skeptical about the whole senior program.
Initially frozen out by her, Ben slowly wins over co-workers with his congeniality and gets into Jules's good graces. He also helps numerous employees with their tasks.
Ben comes to work at 7:00 A.M. one morning to organize a messy desk that Jules had complained about previously.
Jules is surprise and happy with that.
After work, Ben happens to see Jules's chauffeur drinking, so he convinces him to tell her that he can’t drive her and offers to drive Jules home himself.
Early next morning, Ben is disrupted by Jules's assistant who asks him to drive Jules that day again.
He arrives early and is welcomed into the house by Jules’s stay at home husband, Matt.
Ben also meets their daughter, Paige, but on the drive to school, Jules asked for Ben to be transferred, cause she felt that he was too observant and personal.
However, by the end of the day, they bond over some pizza and beer. Jules even helps Ben create a Facebook profile and Ben reveals that he worked at the very same office for almost 40 years.
The next day, Jules excitedly gets into the car, only to find Ben has been replaced, as she had previously asked.
New driver Doris is a horrible driver, she nearly hit someone else car and almost crashes into another.
So, Jules tracks down Ben’s whereabouts and begs him to come back. Then, Ben comes back to work for Jules.
Ben becomes something of a father figure to several of the younger workers, who look up to him: by offering advice about issues such as love, clothes sense and work/life balance.
One chaotic morning, Jules made the mistake of sending a horrible email to her mother and seek help from her employees to resolve it.
Ben and other younger interns drive over to the house and talk through their strategy.
But an alarm system is set off once they entered the house, so they moved quickly in search of the laptop, while Ben calls Jules to try to figure out the pass code.
The alarm goes off, but they managed to delete the email and narrowly avoided the police.
That night, Jules invites them out for drinks and thanks them, she has a little too much to drink but Ben takes care of her.
Meanwhile, because of the fast growth of the company, Jules is under pressure to give up her post of CEO to someone outside of the company to help manage it.
Due to the stress, her marriage with Matt slowly breaks apart and the couple grow distant.
Oneday when Ben driving Paige home from a party, Ben discovers that Matt is having an affair.
While on a business trip to interview a potential CEO candidate, Jules opens up to Ben, and reveals that she knows about Matt's cheating, but did not confront Matt about it because she was not ready to deal with it.
This is the reason that’s why Jules is even considering this whole CEO thing, thinking maybe, someone else coming in will help her get her life back on track.
Ben tells her should be able to have a huge career and be who she is, without having to accept that her husband is having an affair as some kind of payback.
Jules meets with and hires the prospective CEO in an effort to buy herself time to save her marriage.
The next day Ben greatly encourages jules to think about how much this will change her authority and how her creativity may be hindered and also reminds her of her passion for her company.
Greatly encouraged, Jules heads to the office ready to make the call, when Matt unexpectedly drops in at the office and urges her to reconsider, saying that he is sorry, ashamed, and wants to support her in her dreams.
They make amends and Jules goes out looking for Ben to share the good news. She finds Ben enjoying his tai chi class.
He invites her to join and as a symbolic act of her finding balance in her life, she finally lets herself relax and joins him in practicing tai chi.
