The Rebound Page #2

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Bart Freundlich
Production: Momentum Picutres
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2009
95 min
$538,987
706 Views


-- A suit?

-- Yeah, it's in the closet behind you.

Now try to hurry, self-defense class

starts exactly at 5:30.

Mommy, why do you have to do this?

Because now that we live in New York

we're gonna all kinds of different people.

and we need to know

how to deal with them.

Like the man with the penis?

So you're walking down the street,

and all of a sudden you hear ...

hey, sweet lips, I like that ass.

Hey mommy, why don't you come over here,

sit on my face ...?

Hey, kid, how would like

to make a quick $ 100?

-- Yes, sure.

-- No, you don't kid, you don't want that money.

Self--preservation in

in a city of predators.

That's what you will learn in here.

Let's meet our perfetrator.

Hi

No words perf

unless they're scripted.

Begin scenario eight.

Hey, sweet lips.

Scenario 3.

Hey, baby, that should be illegal.

Mrs. Sanchez, it appears you have

a yeast infection,

and an unbelievable set of tits.

For our last exercise,

I am going to demonstrate

what I call, "Ocean of anger."

Hold on, because we are about to go deep.

All of us as

women have developed

a reservoir of resentment and anger.

And these reservoirs put together

form an ocean,

and this ocean is available

for all us to draw from.

It holds the collective power

of every women,

who has ever been wronged

in an inappropriate sexual remark

being underpaid for a

job you've done better than a man,

ancestor who was a slave.

Or rice picker, or simply

lowman on the totem pole.

A husband who has wronged you,

who has cheated and lied to you,

or you, or you, or you.

-- I'm a lesbian.

-- See me after class.

All of this anger is present

in all of you, right now and always.

I need a volunteer.

Mom!

Don't!

You are going to call upon this history

and unleash the ocean of anger on our perf.

May I, just need a quick bathroom break?

Zip it, perf.

Tell him to zip it.

-- Zip it, perf.

-- Again, good, louder.

Zip it, perf.

Now tell him what

you wanna tell him.

Dirty little f***ing scumbag.

take your disease riddled whore

and f*** her in hell

for all eternity,

May the devil burn you,

with hot jagged metal,

and suffocate you with mountain fury.

Now, unleash!.

Oh my God.

Is there a safe word I should be aware of?

Time out.

My life was never gonna be this way

It's okay.

I know you.

I don't see how getting beat up

by a bunch of chicks everyday

is getting you any closer

to the meaning of his life.

I'm helping people,

I'm contributing to the world.

Not like an actor.

Buddy, I reflect life back unto itself, ok?

Thereby, taking mirror,

like a theatre mirror.

-- Look at you.

-- Oh, it's not as bad as it feels.

My mom was sorry she beat you up so bad.

Thank you, Frankie.

Don't worry about it,

your mom didn't beat me up.

I've been going through a lot ...

-- Can I get a blueberry muffin ...?

-- Not right now sweetheart.

I've been going through a lot recently

I didn't realize how much it was affecting me.

-- Don't worry about it.

-- Just saying sorry.

-- I pick it up.

-- I helped.

If palm gets squezzed into it, you could die.

I was wondering

if I could take you up on your offer

to babysit.

If it still holds, that is.

I don't really ... I mean, I haven't you know in a little while ...

I figured since they.

hired at the Women's Center,

You must be trustworthy.

I guess I could pop upstairs

some day after work for a couple of hours.

Would Thursday work?

-- She has a date.

-- With a big pimp.

Where do you learn this stuff?

Olivia at school taught me, she's

my hell, we play .

What ever happened to kickball.

Would 7 o'clock be okay?

Oh, great.

There are times when the lost

must be found,

and other times when the lost

must find themselves.

Very well said Rabbi.

Not that he's a bad little boy

just misguided, falling in with the wrong crowd.

Are you talking about me? I only hang out

with you and Dad?

The battles are not only fought on

the battlefield, Roberto but also in the soul.

My soul is fine. Great.

What does his future hold?

Mom, he's not a palm reader.

A new job is in order.

Luckily, my cousin is a head hunter

are you interested in business, Aram?

Yes

Kids, your babysitter's here.

Come say hello.

Sadie usually goes to bed a bit later than Frankie,

but due to her unscheduled

emergency surgery

she'll be going to bed the same time. - Oh my God.

Are you sure I should be staying with her

after she just had surgery?

This was her surgery.

I told you it was dead

when I found it.

Yes, but I highly doubt

its organs have been harvested.

-- I hate you.

-- Can I play Wii?

For half an hour.

-- You're gonna be okay, right?

-- Yeah

Truth is, I didn't know if I want to go on this date,

it's just my friend, she's kinda

forcing me. Things we need to get with.

Release some tension.

Do I look okay? Everything's in order.

It seems to be.

-- Goodbye, Frankie.

-- Bye.

-- Hey Frank.

-- Call me Pablo.

He also had some cranial seizures as well as TMJ.

So what did you do?

I went right home and I took out my skeleton.

-- Your skeleton?

-- It's really as weird as it sounds.

I have this bone replica skeleton, keep it the house

and I use it to figure stuff out.

This way I can put it in different positions and see how

they affect his bone structure.

-- It's a him?

-- Yes it's him.

Thought it would be weird if it was a her.

That way people might think

I'm seeing somebody,

and it might actually drive away

beautiful women like you.

I'm a mom.

Why did I say that?

It's okay, it's alright, I know. It's true.

You are a mom.

And you are incredibly beautiful.

You have excellent posture.

Excuse me for just a second.

You haven't told me much about yourself. / i

My God.

-- Hello

-- I'm here.

I thought I'd lost you for a second.

No, I grew up just outside

San Francisco.

That's a great town. / i

Do you have any hobby? / i

Just take care of my kids.

No, no, that's not / i

a hobby. / i

I used to like to windsurf.

Longboard? Shortboard? / i

Ocean, lake, what? / i

Lake, mostly lake.

I competed when I was younger.

Competed in windsurfing,

That's impressing.

So?

You ..like the beautiful you, you

You are fascinating.

What's your normal job?

--I work at the coffee shop.

-- I mean your real job?

It was my real job.

but you are in the blowup suit too.

That was just once, I quit there.

-- Didn't you go to college?

-- Yes

I hope I'll have a real job

by the time I'm your age.

Knockout!.

The Pablo man had knocked you out.

So are we gonna have fun tonight

or you're gonna be one of those boring babysitter?

Hey guys, it's me.

I don't know why you're not picking up,

Anyway, I hope everything's okay.

Yeah, ok, bye.

Worried about the kids, huh

My new babysitter have not much experience yet.

I know exactly what you need.

See, we all hold our

tension somewhere.

For you, it's in your shoulders,

and just a little bit in your ass.

There's much experience as I have ...

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Bart Freundlich

Bartholomew "Bart" Freundlich (born January 17, 1970) is an American film director, television director, screenwriter and film producer. more…

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