459. The Intern

Title: The Intern
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2015

Summary: Jules Ostin is the founder and CEO of About the Fit, a fast-growing e-commerce fashion company. One day she agrees to a community outreach program where seniors will intern at the firm. One of the new interns is Ben Whitaker, a widower and retired executive at a phone directory company.

Ben is assigned to work with Jules, who is somewhat skeptical of him at first. One day Jules' chauffeur is drunk, and Ben forces him to tell her when he sees him drinking while he is about to drive Jules, and she begins to warm to Ben when he takes over as her chauffeur as well. Ben eventually reveals that he once worked in the very same building where About The Fit is now based. He also develops a romantic relationship with the in-house massage therapist, Fiona, and becomes something of a father figure to the younger workers. He is very committed to Jules, and even breaks into the house of Jules' mother with his band of co-workers to delete an email that Jules inadvertently sent her.

Meanwhile, Jules is seriously considering giving her post of CEO to someone outside of About the Fit in hopes of professionalizing the company that has grown from a startup founded in her kitchen to a 220-employee juggernaut in only 18 months. Believing it will give her more time at home with her husband Matt and daughter Paige, she is willing to consider the offer. While driving Paige home from a party, Ben discovers that Matt is having an affair with another parent at Paige's school. It turns out that Jules knows about Matt's cheating as well. While on a business trip in San Francisco, Jules tells Ben that she's hoping to bring in an outside CEO in order to save her marriage.

Jules decides to accept one prospective CEO's offer. Late one night at work, Ben greatly encourages her to think about how much this will change her authority and how her creativity may be tampered with. Also, Matt unexpectedly drops in at the office and urges her to reconsider, saying that he is willing to make their marriage work. Jules goes looking for Ben wanting to tell him she's changed her mind, to find him in a Tai Chi exercise group. She finally lets herself relax, and joins him.