A retired widower trades his quiet routine for a desk at a fast-growing online fashion company, and the culture-clash comedy that follows carries this Nancy Meyers workplace story. It pairs Robert De Niro against type as the calm newcomer with Anne Hathaway as the driven founder trying to keep her business afloat.
What is The Intern about?
Ben Whittaker, a widower well into his seventies, decides that a quiet retirement isn't for him and signs up for a senior-intern program at an online fashion startup. The company was built from the ground up by its young founder, who runs the office with restless energy and very little spare time for anything outside the business. Assigned to work directly with her, Ben becomes an odd fit at first among a staff decades younger than himself, but his steady presence and decades of office experience start to matter in ways nobody on the team expected. As the company faces growing pains and its founder is pushed to consider bringing in outside leadership, Ben's quiet support becomes something she leans on, both at work and away from it.
About the cast
Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway anchor the film as the unlikely pair at its center, with Rene Russo, Andrew Rannells, and Adam Devine filling out the office around them. The generational contrast between the leads is played for warmth rather than easy jokes, which shapes the tone of the whole film.
Context & significance
Written and directed by Nancy Meyers, known for polished, dialogue-driven comedies set in upscale, design-conscious worlds, the film leans into her usual attention to interiors and workplace detail, here applied to a Brooklyn-based fashion startup rather than her more familiar suburban settings. Its premise, an older employee finding a place in a young, fast-moving tech-adjacent office, resonated with audiences navigating similar generational shifts in real workplaces, and it became one of the more widely watched comedies of its release year.
Watching The Intern on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available, so viewers can choose the format that suits them. No account is required to read about the film on this page, but a quick, free K-Time login is needed to start watching. The service's Farsi-language interface is designed with the Iranian diaspora in mind, keeping menus and subtitles in Persian while preserving the original English performances.