The REBOUND is a romantic comedy, that follows the story of Sandy (Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago, The Mask of Zorro series, Entrapment, Traffic) as a happily contented wife and mother – that one day comes across a revealing video on her computer of her husband having an affair with another woman. She leaves the family home and takes her two children to start afresh in New York – looking for work within her favourite pastime (sports statistics) – and living in an apartment above a coffee shop.
At the same time, Aram (Justin Bartha) – who works in the coffee shop, is just getting over his new french bride dumping him - as soon as she's achieved her "green card" status.
Sandy and Aram lives get more and more interwoven when she needs a baby sitter and they gradually get closer and closer.
Her friends want Sandy to start dating again – and Aram's parents want him to make more of himself – all claiming that they are both on the rebound
but, there is much more going on ...
Adequately directed by Bart Freundlich, and very well acted by the Main leads – this story moves along well and is one of the better chick flicks out there – and, as always, it stands or falls on the chemistry of the main actors (which works in this case) – and as usual all the best one-liners come from the two children
"Sometimes you need to travel the world - to discover what you really needed all along was right here at home
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I would say that for it class and genre, that this would be a successful movie and is recommended as a romantic comedy
