The Rebound (2009)
Director:
Bart Freundlich
Tagline:
« She’s still got it. He’s just getting it. »
Actors:
Sandy
Aram Finklestein
Frank Jr. – Age 7
Sadie – Age 9
Laura Reilly
Rating:
(52’579 votes)
(52’579 votes)
Quotes:
« Sadie – age 9: [not swayed from the topic] So, you like Mom. Are you two gonna date now?
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« Aram Finklestein: I don't know.
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« Sadie – age 9: You don't really know anything, do ya? I mean, she's kinda your girlfriend.
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« Frank Jr. – age 7: Are you gonna be our new dad?
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« Sadie – age 9: And, if so, who'll be our nanny?
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« Frank Jr. – age 7: Yeah, and what'll we call you?
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« Aram Finklestein: Jesus, I'm not being nominated to Supreme Court here, guys. I just had sex with your mother.
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« Aram Finklestein: [noticing a distressed mother in the next bowling lane glaring at him while grasping her child protectively] And when I say sex… I mean that I gave her… a nice massage.
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« Frank Jr. – age 7: [brightly] With sperm.
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« 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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[first lines]
« Sandy: [driving kids to school] Same thing, every fucking morning.
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« Sadie – age 9: I heard that.
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« Sandy: No, you didn't.
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« Sadie – age 9: Yes, I did.
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« Frank Jr. – age 7: I did, too.
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Trailer:
The Rebound: International Trailer
Runtime:95 minutes
Plots:
In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.
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 were 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?
Aram Finklestein is a smart, shy last year business management student from an ambitious Jewish New York family, but refuses to be pushed into either rat race or a semi-arranged marriage, traumatized by the French exchange student ‘wife’ Alice who dumped him after getting her green card. So he takes menial jobs, like deli barista with a womanizer mate, who envies and encourages him when customer Sandy (45), not nearly over her divorce but with custody of pleasant rascal Frank and shameless brat Sadie, is surprised to hear him agree to babysit the pair while she tries dates arranged by her no-good friend Daphne. Aram repeats the service to everyone’s satisfaction, but family-like affection grows, they date and he stands up for his clients against her presumptuous ex. Yet she can’t handle the age difference, so their ways separate for years.
