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Movie review of The Rebound (2009) by The Critical Movie Critics | Rom-com with Catherine Zeta-Jones catching the eye of her younger neighbor.
- Bart Freundlich
- R
- Art Garfunkel
104 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. Slow start, but way above expectations. spectrelives 30 March 2010. I went into the movie with low expectations. Wasn't hard, given it has been slammed by most critics and the pretentious on RottonTomatoes.
Despite being marketed as though it is another throwaway, useless romcom money-spinner, The Rebound is not as bad as everyone probably expects. It begins unenthusiastically with a typical attention deficit credit sequence and takes some time to get going, but once it does it bounces along quite nicely, revealing itself to be a well-rounded ...
The nice thing about The Rebound is that the characters mostly play it straight with good performances; the situation comedy is light, if mostly obvious. The script boasts a few clever wrinkles on the tropes of romantic comedies, the Meet Cute, Falling In Love, Falling Out and Pining.
Nov 8, 2010 · The Rebound has a familiar, but not unpromising starting point: Well-off suburban housewife Sandy (Zeta-Jones) thinks she has a picture-perfect life, until she finds out her husband is cheating....
The Rebound's reviews. I just watched the movie, the Rebound and I liked it. I don't understand why it is has such a low rating on IMDB and is negatively reviewed. I get that the script might not be that great but I liked the acting and the ending was different from what I expected and not a cliche one. I only feel the movie could have been ...
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The Rebound is a light romcom where Sandy (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a beautiful, smart, suburban 40-year-old mother who discovers her husband is cheating on her and takes her two children to New York City for a fresh start.