The Rebound Page #3

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


can tell just by the way

as people walk ...

and even by the way they smile.

No charge.

This thing got my arm.

I'm running through the forest.

Leave me one arm,

please don't ...

I'll get claustrophobic wearing human skin mask.

You couldn't even wear

a hulk mask last Halloween.

That's because it was hot and it smelled bad.

-- That was your breath, retard.

-- Sadie ...

-- Actually ...

-- C'mon, you don't need to do.....

It's 11 o'clock.

Gotta to get you to bed

before your mom comes home.

-- How about the "Exorcist".

-- Okay.

I don't feel so good.

I might throw up.

This chocolate bar is bigger than you

If you're gonna throw up, can't you do it before your mom gets home, please.

I always throw up when mentioning throw up, and before a girl.

I love throw ups.

-- Eew, you love to eat throw up?

-- Sadie.

What?

You're gonna freak him out

you're getting us all in trouble.

You know actually I feels like.., Frankie?

-- That was nice, listen

-- What?.

Eating a raw skinned pigeon

with mustard and rotten milk,

just chewing on those intestines and those little bones..

Okay, off to bed, c'mon ... - Yummy

Touch my cock.

Stop the car.

-- You have a problem.

-- I have a problem?

Thanks for offering.

I'd love to tell you.

In a taxi. It seems like the perfect place.

Hobby

Home making.

How could this happen to me?

Do you ever wonder that?

How could I have floated so far

off the path I thought I was on?

I just thought maybe

it would be some meaning to my life.

I'm not making any sense.

Maybe you'll come back again

Coz I think the kids could really use some continuity.

Sh*t.

I have no f***ing money, can you believe that?

Can I pay you tomorrow?

It's no problem.

Hey it's you, eating a croissant.

French chick must be fading, huh.

-- Don't change the music.

-- What, they're shooting music..oops?

-- What do you think about kids?

-- I think about making them all the time.

-- That's not what I'm talking about.

-- What are you talking about?

-- I don't know, being entirely responsible

for another human being's life.

It's crazy.

-- Aram, aram

-- Mama's dead!

What? -- C'mon.

She's not dead.

It could be postmortem twitch.

Kids fall back.

Hey.

Sandy.

It's morning.

Oh my God, I slept with a babysitter.

You didn't sleep with a babysitter.

We thought you were dead.

Yeah, we thought you might have asphyxiated on your own vomit

Aram can take us to school.

Coz we're already late.

-- Could you? --Sure

Can you pick them up too?

Are those stat sheets ready yet?

Yeah, printer 4.

Sandy, you got a minute?

Am I fired?

What! Why would you say that?

Because ...

I'm so hangover, I guess.

I have two kids and no husband

I haven't had a real job since graduate school. I'm so sorry

Oh, please don't apologize.

I was really calling you in to see

if you wanted to write for me.

I find the guys stuff gets boring and repetitive.

And I saw that stat book you put together, amazing.

Clearly obsessive, reminds me of me

Do you do yoga?

I'll do yoga if I could win.

I'm gonna take you some time.

-- Thanks.

-- Hydrate.

Cool, what's your catch phrase gonna be?

I don't think it's gonna be like that, Frankie. I'm just gonna be writing the basis of the story and she'll fill in the flavor.

-- What about suck it?

-- Why are you such an idiot.

It's just an idea.

That's really exciting though, I mean, and you can even get some airtime.

I don't think so. -That'll be cool, mom.

You have the face for it.

That's a nice thing to say.

"You have the face for it.", hmm, love you, love you, love you

I'm just saying that your mom has a face

to put on TV.

I'm very together, I never

missed taking my kids to school.

You don't have to explain anything, I promise

I know what it's like to go through a divorce.

Are your parents divorced?

No, I am sort of.

You're so young.

When do you have the time?

It was short--lived, her name was Alice,

she left me for her brother. He wasn't really her brother

he was just posing as her brother so he could be close to her

So she could use me to get a green card.

What!? That is horrible.

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

The worst part about it though

is I can't bring myself to finalize the divorce

because if I do

then she'll get kick out of the country

That would be so cruel, you know.

God, I wished I could get my husband kicked out of the country.

It's that bad, huh. --Yeah

-- So sorry.

-- Oh, no, me too, for you.

You know, Aram this has been really hard for me

and with a new job, there's gonna be some longer hours.

And I was thinking, maybe you'd be willing

to help us out on more of a full time basis.

A nanny?

You're not from Trinidad, you're

from the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Did we send you to college for this, Harry?

You always said

you just wanted me to be happy.

Within reason, this is not how you contribute to the world.

Mom you work for Ralph Lauren.

People need clothes.

This family needs me, she just got divorced

and she got this great job

and she needs someone to

trust to take care of these kids..

Mom it's not like it's forever.

You know, I'm gonna be making money.

-- Harry!

-- Alright,

you're still going out on interviews for other jobs.

And in the meantime you can't keep this for quite a while.

Let me try it, get a job, I'm a freaking racer.

It's not the same thing.

Coz you have to say the freaking first to make it work.

It's much funnier with the freaking, right?

I'm just gonna go outside and grab a smoke.

Smoke? What are they from stone age?

Please for some goddamn God, you got to find something wrong with every guy

Did you see how long it takes

the guy to order a bow wine?

His father owns a vineyard

in Napa, so he knows a lot about it.

Like he mentioned several hundred times.

He mentioned it once.

Who is calling you?

You don't have a life.

It's Aram, he taught me how to text.

Oh my God!

What?

--You have a thing for the nanny

-- Oh, please.

He's just telling me that my kids are asleep.

Kids asleep. Frank to

Frank took two foot long poop, we measured.

It's disgusting.

Just keeping me in the loop and I appreciate that.

It's very funny, sincere.

and besides he's a lot more adult than those guys you've set me up with.

In a 24-year old kind of way.

-- Let me see what you wrote.

-- No, no ...you're not

About to bail on my date, set up monopoly?

This is pathetic. Seriously?

Yeah

Ok, here's the p*ssy.

I would love you to meet

Sunshine and Cinnamon.

Hi, I am Aram.

They love talking and stuff so...

Try to be normal, alright. Stay positive.

-- Sorry. --Aram, hey.

It's a weird name.

Thank you.

Mitch told me he is divorced.

It's weird, huh.

It's kinda normal to me, you know, it's my life.

So I'm kinda used to it, I guess.

I guess if you mean, it's unusual, then yeah.

We'll talk a lot about this.

I guess.

I love theories.

Make me a little horny.

I think I'm gonna go.

Hey, it's me, what are you guys doing?

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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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