The Rebound (2009)

In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.

Director:

Bart Freundlich

Writer:

Bart Freundlich

Stars:

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Justin Bartha, Andrew Cherry

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Catherine Zeta-Jones	...	Sandy
Justin Bartha	...	Aram Finklestein
Andrew Cherry	...	Frank Jr. - age 7
Kelly Gould	...	Sadie - age 9
Lynn Whitfield	...	Laura Reilly
Kate Jennings Grant	...	Daphne
Rob Kerkovich	...	Mitch
Sam Robards	...	Frank
John Schneider	...	Trevor
Joanna Gleason	...	Roberta Finklestein
Art Garfunkel	...	Harry Finklestein
Stephanie Szostak	...	Alice Marnier
Marcel Simoneau	...	Henri
Eliza Callahan	...	Sadie - age 13 (as Eliza Barry Callahan)
Rehan Yadav	...	Zeke Finklestein - age 5

Storyline

Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram's family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children where born. It isn't long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?

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Plot Keywords:

coffee shop | ex husband ex wife relationship | home video | sex on a couch | restaurant | 

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Taglines:

She's still got it. He's just getting it.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr] Official site [jp] (Japanese)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 September 2009 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

Untitled Bart Freundlich Project

Filming Locations:

Istanbul, Turkey

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

£360,015 (UK) (23 July 2010)

Gross:

£1,123,719 (UK) (6 August 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film Department, The, Process Productions, A&F Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min 97 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS (as Datasat Digital Sound)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

'Joanna Gleason''s character Roberta refer's to previously being employed at Ralph Lauren. A reference to her part in the TV show, Friends in which she played Rachael's boss at Ralph Lauren.

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Goofs

When Sandy and Aram leave the clinic after finding out she is suffering from and ectopic pregnancy, it is snowing but some of the people crossing the street behind them are wearing shorts.

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Quotes

Sandy: You dirty little fucking scumbag! Take your disease-riddled whore and fuck her in hell, for all eternity! While the devil burns you with hot, jagged metal! And suffocates you, with molten fury!

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Connections

References American Idol (2002)

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Soundtracks

"Israelites"
Written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong
Performed by Desmond Dekker & The Aces

User Reviews

OMG - American culture in on a downslide

I have used IMDb for 20+ years. This is the first time I have felt compelled to add a review. This movie is unbelievably bad...and even more importantly it really makes me worried about American culture that it could get so many good reviews here. Really terrible acting, juvenile humor...it truly seemed like it was made for 12-year-olds (except for the juvenile sexual humor). Wow. The story premise seems quite hard to believe. It was annoying and at times nauseatingly so. Hmm.....it says I have to write a minimum of ten lines here....................very funny....what a strange policy. There is not much more to add, the movie is so simpleminded.