Be Kind Rewind Page #2

Synopsis: In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Michel Gondry
Production: New Line Cinema
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PG-13
Year:
2008
102 min
$11,200,000
Website
560 Views


Good night, Mike.

Don't forget to turn out the lights.

Good night, Mr. Fletcher.

A rent party was the place to be

in the '20s and '30s.

They were jumping.

If you didn't have enough money

to cover your rent...

...you'd invite a few musicians,

charge for drinks, and you'd get it on.

Everybody would throw

just a little bit in the pot.

A dollar, whatever they could spare.

Jerry doesn't believe you've ever been

to a rent party, Mr. Fletcher.

What are you talking about?

I never said that.

Oh, man, I used to go to all of them.

That's where I'd meet

all the girls on Saturday night.

I can't imagine you with a girl,

Mr. Fletcher.

Oh, nice, that's great. That's perfect.

Yeah, what about you, Jerry?

I don't see much action

coming out of your trailer at night.

When I was your age,

my balls were flapping so hard...

... I had to scrape them off the ground

and beg them to come home with me.

- Come on, balls.

- Yeah, come on.

Come on. That's hilarious.

What about you, Mike?

When was the last time you heard

some action coming out of his room?

Why are you all worried about me for?

I heard some action sometime.

Now, it's more like a trumpet solo.

Trumpet solo.

Could you close your mouth

when you chew? Thanks.

How come you never got married,

Mr. Fletcher?

Well, the common story is...

...the girl that you was gonna ask,

you waited too long to ask...

...and she went on

and married somebody else.

And then you can't find anybody

that compared to her.

So, what happens? You get old.

Obviously we're looking

at a real improvement in quality of life.

These brand-new condominiums

are gonna bring us...

...the fresh blood

that we need for our community...

...and transform this slum forever.

"Slum"? Hey, this is not a slum.

Hey, sure, the place needs a few repairs,

but I'm taking care of it.

Look, look,

business is about to pick up.

I can feel it.

I'm sorry, Mr. Fletcher,

but the building is condemned.

It violates structural,

fire and plumbing standards.

I don't see wheelchair access.

Your video store is a tenement.

You have 60 days from this notice

of demolition...

...to bring it up to code,

otherwise we will have to demolish it.

- But we will relocate you...

- Yes.

...to a property

of proportionate fair-market value.

Projects aren't so bad, you know.

Move to the projects?

How am I gonna tell Mike?

Look, I just wanna improve the life

of the people of Passaic, that's all.

You know, you don't have to pay me

this month, Mr. Fletcher. I'm okay.

Don't worry about the money, Mike.

I'll pay you soon.

In fact, I... I need for you

to take over for me.

- You're retiring?

- Oh, no, no, no.

This year's the 60th anniversary

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Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry (French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]; born 8 May 1963) is a French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep (2006), the comedy Be Kind Rewind (2008), the superhero action comedy The Green Hornet (2011), the drama The We and the I (2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy Mood Indigo (2013). He is well known for his music video collaborations with Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes. more…

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