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'The Intern' Offers Workplace Lessons For Millennials and Baby Boomers

Nancy Meyer's new movie "The Intern" -- her first in six years -- has moments that are nothing short of slapstick. In one hilarious and unforgettable scene, Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) accidentally sends an email to her mother. In the subject line: "Her," and the body: "Why is my mother such a raging bitch?" In attempt to conduct damage repair, the founder, working mother, and hallmark Brooklynite teams up with her 70-year old intern (Robert De Niro) to break into her mother's house and steal the computer.  Of course, such antics feel jarring in a movie that's primarily about an e-commerce startup, but the scene brings up questions about the inter-generational conflicts that are as real as they are critical to modern workplaces.  Meyers has famously centered many of her films around women (often, middle-aged), and has received multiple Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for hits li...