The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In Creed, Sylvester Stallone serves as a contrarian mentor and coach to the son of his deceased friend and former boxing rival, while The Intern pairs entrepreneur Anne Hathaway with former Raging Bull Robert DeNiro as the eponymous intern. (This last film sports the subtitle, “Experience Never Gets Old,” surely happy news to any Boomer thinking about their next chapter in the world of work.) Spoiler: Although DeNiro’s intern is technically the subordinate, he ends up imparting to Hathaway’s character important lessons on what it means to succeed at work and in life.