Be Kind Rewind Page #5

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
569 Views


I will never speak to you again.

Mike! Mike!

Traitor.

I'll do it alone, baby.

Solo mission.

Solo sabotage.

Mike! Come back!

No, Jerry, no.

No. No. You have to go.

You see the signs? "Keep Jerry out."

This is in, that's out.

Go home, take a shower, lie down.

Oh, come on.

Get out of the street.

Get out of the street.

Wipe your face.

Jesus. Stand right there.

I'll get you some water.

Don't move, just wait a minute.

Oh, you feeling better now?

Mike, aren't you gonna ask me

how the sabotage went?

No, I wasn't, actually.

Oh, come on,

ask me how the sabotage went.

Okay, how'd the sabotage go?

Terrible. It was a two-man operation.

- It was a two-person sabotage.

- Shh.

Ma'am, if you need any help,

just let me know.

How about if I need any help?

Should I let you know?

- I wasn't talking to you.

- Yeah, apparently not.

Thanks.

Oh, that's not in alphabetical order.

I know that, it's the new order.

Excuse me.

- Do you work here? I don't think so.

- Jerry.

Haven't you heard

about the new West Coast Video...

...more efficient,

non-alphabetical order...

... Miss l-Know-Where-to-Put-the-Videos?

No, it's time for me

to educate your customers.

Do you put everything in your house

in alphabetical order?

- Like all of your food in the refrigerator?

- You know, maybe...

- Apples, bananas, carrots.

- She might, and that would be fine...

- Ding-Dongs.

...because she didn't do anything wrong.

You know what I just realized?

I bet she's super-organized.

She's really like:

I hate those kind of people.

- You are incredibly rude.

- Don't attack me, lady.

- You're incredibly rude, mister.

- Are you done yelling in my ear?

- I'm sorry, ma'am.

- I'm sorry.

Did I put your forks

into the spoon drawer?

- Go home.

- Don't put the TV next to the radio.

- Why don't you just go, go, go?

- Get some rest.

- Lunatic!

- You're the cuckoo. Hey. Hey.

Don't put the shoes in the refrigerator,

because they'll get cold.

- Wow...

- Dumb broad.

- I am really, really sorry.

- Yeah.

He's a veteran, actually.

He's had a lot of exposure to,

you know, chemicals and stuff.

If there's anything you need, we got...

We got books, we got albums.

I got some refreshments

in the icebox.

Okay, I appreciate it.

You're welcome.

Fletcher...

...you'll pull through. Every time you think

it's the end, you always pull through.

Look here, look here, Mo.

I wish it was that easy, man.

But not this time.

I can't adapt, and that's why I'm broke.

Fletcher, this is America.

Anybody can make money.

But you...

No, let me show you something.

We made a ton of money

with this little thing.

- What, this is a dish-squirting brush?

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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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