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
596 Views


whenever I'm feeling depressed?

- Oh, what's that?

- I clean my house.

- Oh, really?

- Honest to God, it clears the mind.

You'll see, in the morning

when the sun comes in.

- Uh-huh.

- Number one step for fighting depression.

Here it is, Miss Falewicz, there you go.

Ghostbusters like you asked for.

When you're walking down the street

- You know what, I...

- And you see a little ghost

- All right.

- I have a... I have a...

I was gonna say I have a...

- What are you doing? I have a method.

- What you gonna do?

- A foolproof method for fighting depression.

- Ghostbusters

You get a notebook

and you, like, put four columns in it.

- And the first column is...

- And you see a little ghost

...the effort you believe...

- What you gonna do?

...the dreaded task will take...

- Ghostbusters

Tell me the other two tomorrow,

because I'm really...

- Good movie you got there.

- I'm focused on those first two.

Wait a sec, 1 dollar, one tape,

one night, right?

- No, Miss Falewicz, it's not a problem.

- I'm in it.

- It's okay. That's on us today.

- Really?

- Uh-huh.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome. Take care.

- Enjoy the movie.

We should've had, like, a premiere

of that thing or something.

- What?

- What are you talking about, "what"?

She's not supposed to know

that we're in the movie...

...because we're not in Ghostbusters.

- Yeah? Maybe I want her to know...

- Maybe I am in Ghostbusters.

- Why is it...?

- Because I'm proud of my work.

- Oh, you're...

- Oh, my God.

- Mike, you have zero ambition.

- What's...?

- That's your problem.

You're gonna be stuck in this dump

for the rest of your life.

Good night.

Wh...? What? What? What's a dump?

What's a dump?

My... My shop is a dump?

You live in a junkyard.

Not just the store,

the whole city is a swamp.

- It's a swamp now?

- Yeah, a dump swamp.

When you get stuck here,

you're stuck for life.

Come on, Mike, what is so great

about this town? Huh?

- The people.

- The people?

You're gonna make me cry.

The people.

The only reason there's anybody here

is because they have nowhere to go.

Why don't you...? Why don't you

go somewhere, Mr. "Junkman"?

We got a customer. We got a customer.

- Mr... Mr. Jack.

- Hi, how you doing?

Yeah, actually, we're closed.

- I'm actually open later...

- It'll just take a moment, guys.

- Rush Hour 2, that's all.

- Excellent choice.

It's out. But you come back tomorrow,

and I can... I can get you Ghostbusters.

Seen it. Jaws?

- Whoa, what the duck?

- Whoa, what was that?

How about Towering Inferno?

- I saw it.

- Mr. Jack...

...if you just come back tomorrow.

I... I'll take care of all of that tomorrow,

okay, Mr. Jack?

I can't believe you don't have Rush Hour 2.

I'm gonna go to West Coast Video.

No, you... No, you're not.

Dude, you'd better...

You don't do that, you...

Have some morals.

Just wait till tomorrow.

I'll have Rush Hour 2 tomorrow.

Good!

Lee, I'm coming.

I'm taking the stairs.

Lee.

Lee.

Cut, that was great.

Lee!

- Over here.

- Lee, what you doing down there, man?

Carter, behind you.

Behind you, look out.

Lee, this Chinese bamboo

ain't gonna hold.

Don't worry, Carter,

Chinese bamboo, very strong.

This Chinese bamboo ain't strong.

I can't believe you got me out here.

Forget about the bamboo.

We gotta go solve a crime.

Go in for the kiss now, Jerry.

Go in for the kiss.

Go in for the kiss now.

Go now, kiss him now.

Hold on.

Why do I have to kiss Wilson?

- She's the bad guy, right?

- Right.

She's got the detonator...

He's got the detonator in his hand.

You have the bomb in your mouth.

You have to press it against her

to keep her from blowing your head off.

- I'm not kissing Wilson.

- It's not a kiss!

I don't wanna kiss Wilson.

We've been working with him all day.

We can't replace him.

- Could I just say something?

- What?

I quit.

- Amateurs. I hate this movie.

- Wilson...

Thanks, good work today.

Mike.

Mike, Mike. Listen to me.

Maybe you can understand that

I don't want the whole neighborhood...

...to think I'm having a homosexual,

interracial relationship with my mechanic.

Oh. Okay.

- So the interracial is the issue.

- Okay, forget about the interracial thing...

...but kissing my mechanic is disturbing

and inappropriate.

He could sue me

for sexual harassment.

- Oh, yeah.

- Okay, come on.

Mike, Mike, Mike. I got a better idea.

Follow me.

Right, yeah,

There's a stain on this sweater.

- Okay. Okay.

- You see what I'm talking about?

Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt.

We're moviemakers and we're making

a movie around the corner.

And we have a kissing scene,

and we need an actress...

...and you are amazing.

I'm sorry, I can't leave the store.

I have work to do, but my sister can.

- Alma.

- What?

Come here.

These guys are making a film

around the corner. They need a girl.

What kind of film are you making?

Actually it's like comedy,

action, adventure.

- Like, the types of movies, you know...

- I don't think you understand...

- Like what kind?

...what we're offering you, though.

- We want you to be a movie star.

- I told you I have to stay here.

I can't leave, but she should go,

she's a really good actress.

- I was in the school play.

- She was a fridge.

- A refrigerator?

- Yeah.

So check it out.

Okay, so I'm standing in the kitchen...

...and this is my door.

And then I had, like, to close my eye

like this, and I go like that.

- Okay, we're gonna take a quick meeting.

- That was the light.

- A quick producers' meeting.

- It's the light.

- You got it.

- She's horrible.

- What's the matter? She's...

- She's the worst actress I've ever seen.

Listen to me, I know a woman...

...who works across the street

at the diner, she's per...

Are you gonna kiss her or Wilson?

Because that's what it is at this point.

- You gonna kiss her?

- I hate you right now.

Okay, we did it.

- Guess what, we just had a meeting.

- Yeah?

- You got the part.

- I got the part?

- Oh, yeah.

- So we should... We should go now...

...because we're actually...

- We're shooting right now.

- Thank you so much.

It's gonna be fun.

We're gonna makes some movies.

I'm sorry, can...? Can...? Can...?

- Is this yours?

- Yes, it is.

- Can we use this just really quickly?

- No, no, no.

- She just dropped this off to be cleaned.

- Just really, really quickly.

- It'll be all right.

- You don't have to do that.

We'll bring it back.

We'll make sure it's in fine condition.

- What's your name?

- Ann.

Ann. Miss Ann. Thank you so much.

We gotta make sure

she gets a wardrobe credit.

She will get a credit for sure,

and then some.

- I'm gonna be thinking about...

- Thank you.

...parts for you in the future

of our films.

Not you, however. You blew it.

I wanted to make you Marilyn Monroe.

- Now you're just gonna be the cleaner.

- Okay, let's go. Thank you.

- Thank you for letting us use your sister.

- Alma, keep your tongue in your mouth.

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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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