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The Rebound
In New York City, a fortyish mother of two who has just been divorced hires her new neighbor, a much younger man to take care of her children. But shen ends up becoming involved with the nanny.
11 August 1938, USA
15 November 1961, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
July 22, 2010
Why is a movie that's trying to evoke some of the cool metropolitanism of late-'70s Woody Allen so rammed with hoary gags about New York being awash with transvestites and homeless flashers?
December 25, 2010
An unromantic comedy that gets down and dirty.
February 17, 2012
Poor writing and inconsistencies sink this film. Let's hope that Zeta-Jones and Bartha can rebound.
July 22, 2010
These are characters who seem very real. It's their imperfections, not contrived plot points, that drive the story.
July 26, 2010
Another faintly insulting rom-com promoting a marketing man's idea of what women really want from movies...
July 26, 2010
The Rebound offers up surprisingly nice characters (too nice, you could argue) and a modest charm that compensates for a lack of big laughs or much suspense.
July 22, 2010
The romantic trials of two wealthy, good-looking people, whose only barriers to happiness are their own petty insecurities, become tedious, and it's not helped by some stilted dialogue and awkward, mannered performances.
July 22, 2010
Laughs are in short supply, and Mr Freundlich resorts to gross-out lavatory humour that's an unnecessary concession to youthful audiences who wouldn't like this movie anyway.
February 28, 2012
...a thoroughly (and consistently) misguided piece of work that has almost nothing truthful or relevant to say about relationships.
January 20, 2012
Although it bears the marks of studio intervention, much of the blame remains firmly with Freundlich, who's incapable of arranging a single honest moment in this uncomfortable, frightfully strained creation.
November 09, 2010
Saddling two game actors with a tone-deaf, charmless script, the film makes recent J.Lo vehicle The Back-up Plan look like Billy Wilder in comparison.
October 29, 2010
The Rebound is largely character-driven, which is more than a lot of romantic films can vouch for.