Sandy is a woman who discovered her husband's recent betrayal while watching the video of her son's birth by chance. Sandy decided to leave her house and move to the city in search of another home. Sandy found an apartment above a small cafe in the city, and accidentally met a cafe worker named Aram. The Aram family is called to waste his life and education by working in the cafe. Shortly after moving to the apartment in that city, Sandy decided to hire Aram to be her nanny, and then things might change.
The romantic trials of two wealthy, good-looking people, whose only barriers to happiness are their own petty insecurities, become tedious, and it's not helped by some stilted dialogue and awkward, mannered performances.
Laughs are in short supply, and Mr Freundlich resorts to gross-out lavatory humour that's an unnecessary concession to youthful audiences who wouldn't like this movie anyway.
Although it bears the marks of studio intervention, much of the blame remains firmly with Freundlich, who's incapable of arranging a single honest moment in this uncomfortable, frightfully strained creation.
Why is a movie that's trying to evoke some of the cool metropolitanism of late-'70s Woody Allen so rammed with hoary gags about New York being awash with transvestites and homeless flashers?
The Rebound offers up surprisingly nice characters (too nice, you could argue) and a modest charm that compensates for a lack of big laughs or much suspense.
