 Streep was next cast in the 2005 comedy film Prime , directed by Ben Younger . In the film , she played Lisa Metzger , the Jewish psychoanalyst of a divorced and lonesome business @-@ woman , played by Uma Thurman , who enters a relationship with Metzger 's 23 @-@ year @-@ old son ( Bryan Greenberg ) . A modest mainstream success , it eventually grossed US $ 67 @.@ 9 million internationally . Roger Ebert noted how Streep had " that ability to cut through the solemnity of a scene with a zinger that reveals how all human effort is " . 
