Tonight on TV: Have you ever seen the 72-year-old intern?

In the early 2000s, Nancy Meyers really hit it off with the romantic comedy What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

With a worldwide gross of $374 million (on a $70 million budget), it is the most commercially successful female-led film in several years.

So the director continues on this path with Anything Can Happen, The Holiday and Not So Simple – all romantic comedies with five-star casts, widely acclaimed by the public and critics.

After a six-year hiatus, Nancy Meyers returned to cinema in 2015 with The New Intern, a departure from her beloved genre. Through the story of Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who takes an intern position at a fashion website created and run by a thirty-year-old woman, the filmmaker focuses on the mentor/student relationship, while being careful as usual to subvert clichés.

Thus, the film deals with the complex relationship between two generations: the relationship between boomers and millennials, played on screen by the legend Robert De Niro and the talented Anne Hathaway, who we are happy to find in such a role after seeing her as a martyr’s sidekick. The Devil Wears Prada.

Thanks to the alchemy of this unique duo, New intern It was a huge success in theaters, grossing $193 million worldwide on a $35 million budget.

New intern Nancy Meyers with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo…

Tonight on TF1 at 21:10.