Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Michel Gondry

Guionista:

Michel Gondry (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 febrero 2008 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

You name it, we shoot it

Plot:

A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.

Plot Keywords:

Friend | Video Store | Sabotage | Power Plant | Deception

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Black and Def are excellent, but the rest of the film is just disappointing

Reparto

Jack Black	...	Jerry Gerber
Mos Def	...	Mike
Danny Glover	...	Elroy Fletcher
Mia Farrow	...	Miss Falewicz
Melonie Diaz	...	Alma
Irv Gooch	...	Wilson
Chandler Parker	...	Craig
Arjay Smith	...	Manny
Quinton Aaron	...	Q
Gio Perez	...	Randy
Basia Rosas	...	Andrea
Tomasz Soltys	...	Carl
Marcus Carl Franklin	...	Kid #1
Blake Hightower	...	Kid #2
Amir Ali Said	...	Kid #3
David Slotkoff	...	Jack
Frank Heins	...	Patrick
Heather Lawless	...	Sherry
Karolina Wydra	...	Gabrielle Bochenski
Harvey Hogan	...	Video Store Customer #1
Ted McElwee	...	Video Store Customer #2
Walter Helbig	...	Video Store Customer #3
Victor Dickerson	...	Man in Video Store #1
David M. Sheppard	...	Man in Video Store #2
Marc Alan Austen	...	Man in Video Store #3
Paul Barman	...	Young Man Watching TV
Karen Spitzer	...	Young Woman Watching TV
Allie Woods Jr.	...	Doctor Bent
McKinley Page	...	Brother McDuff
Francisco Fabian	...	Simon from the Copy Shop
Kishu Chand	...	Alma's Sister
Ann Longo	...	Miss Falewicz's Friend
Parrie Hodges	...	Miss Falewicz's Friend / Fats Waller's Mom
Kid Creole	...	West Coast Video Employee Passaic (as August Darnell)
Jon Glaser	...	West Coast Video Employee NYC
P.J. Byrne	...	Mr. Baker
Marceline Hugot	...	City Hall Employee
John Tormey	...	Demolition Chief
Frank Girardeau	...	Officer Gary
Matt Walsh	...	Officer Julian
Paul Dinello	...	Mr. Rooney
Sigourney Weaver	...	Ms. Lawson
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Elizabeth Berkley	...	Girl In Library (uncredited)
Sacha Bourdo	...	Man in queue (uncredited)
Steve Cropper	...	Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
Anthony Guerino	...	Laundromat Patron (uncredited)
Booker T. Jones	...	Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
Loukas Papas	...	Tophat Harry (uncredited)
Jimmy Scott	...	Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
McCoy Tyner	...	Fats Waller's fan in train (uncredited)
Todd Travis Warrick	...	Store Patron (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Michel Gondry

Créditos del guión
Michel Gondry		(written by)

Producida por
Raffi Adlan	....	associate producer
Georges Bermann	....	producer
Toby Emmerich	....	executive producer
Julie Fong	....	producer
Michel Gondry	....	producer
Ann Ruark	....	co-producer
Guy Stodel	....	executive producer

Música original por
Jean-Michel Bernard

Fotografía por
Ellen Kuras

Montaje por
Jeff Buchanan

Casting
Jeanne McCarthy

Diseño de producción por
Dan Leigh

Dirección artística
James Donahue

Decorados
Ron von Blomberg

Diseño de vestuario por
Rahel Afiley
Kishu Chand

Departamento de maquillaje
Marjorie Durand	....	makeup department head
Suzy Mazzarese-Allison	....	hair department head

Dirección de producción
Gwen Bialic	....	production supervisor
Kendall McCarthy	....	post-production supervisor

Ayudante de dirección
Catherine Bloch	....	additional second assistant director
David Fischer	....	second second assistant director
Michael Hausman	....	first assistant director
Jesse Nye	....	second assistant director
Eric West	....	additional second assistant director: action unit (uncredited)

Departamento de Arte
Robert Antalocy	....	carpenter
Stuart Auld	....	scenic artist
Russell Barnes	....	art department coordinator
Jeff Butcher	....	property master: New York
Doug Coleman	....	set dresser
Brandon Cook	....	set dresser
Guido DeCurtis	....	lead man
Amy S. Dholakia	....	graphic artist: props
Daniel Fisher	....	assistant property master
Alison Ford	....	assistant art director
Isaac Gabaeff	....	set dresser
Kley Gilbuena	....	props assistant
Jeffrey Halls	....	carpenter
Jay Hendrickx	....	camera scenic
Akeo Ihara	....	prop fabricator
Jon Kim	....	additional props
Jon Kim	....	set dresser
Jesse Klipp	....	set dresser
Jonathan B. Lee	....	set dresser
Carlton McClarence	....	set dresser
Evan C. Newell	....	art team: construction grip (as Evan Newell)
Kevin L. Raper	....	additional graphic artist
Tim Rossiter	....	props fabrication
Susan Tatom	....	set dresser
Dennis Tillberg	....	scenic artist
Andrew M. Velechenko	....	carpenter
Danielle Webb	....	props fabrication
Eric West	....	location on-set dresser
Monica Wille	....	art department assistant
Rob Yapkowitz	....	set dresser
Tomas Zeman	....	art researcher
Jen Day	....	set production assistant (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Gina Alfano	....	adr editor
Jamie Baker	....	supervising foley editor
David Corcoran	....	apprentice sound editor
Marko A. Costanzo	....	foley artist
Jeanne Gilliland	....	boom operator
Anguibe Guindo	....	sound utility (as A. G. Guindo)
Eric Hirsch	....	sound re-recordist
Paul Hsu	....	sound re-recording mixer
Paul Hsu	....	supervising sound editor
Frank Kern	....	foley editor
Dan Korintus	....	dialogue editor
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
Lisa J. Levine	....	adr editor (as Lisa Levine)
Marissa Littlefield	....	supervising adr editor
Branka Mrkic	....	dialogue editor (as Branka Mrkic-Tana)
Egor Panchenko	....	ProTools playback mixer
Egor Panchenko	....	sound utility
Egor Panchenko	....	utility boom
Mary Ellen Porto	....	adr editor
Alex Soto	....	assistant sound editor
Reilly Steele	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jeffrey Stern	....	dialogue editor
Sara Stern	....	first assistant sound editor
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Robert Troeller	....	sound technician
Pawel Wdowczak	....	sound

Efectos especiales
Russell Berg	....	special effects coordinator (as Russell J. Berg)
Doug Coleman	....	special effects technician
Chris Jordan	....	special effects
Steven Kirshoff	....	special effects manufacturer (as Steve Kirshoff)
Tim Rossiter	....	special effects coordinator
Danielle Webb	....	special effects

Visual Effects
François-Xavier Aubague	....	visual effects producer: BUF
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals
Melanie Cussac	....	visual effects producer: BUF
Aaron Dorn	....	digital opticals producer: EFilm
Pierre Escande	....	visual effects coordinator
Nadia Essid	....	digital artist
Frederique Gyuran	....	digital artist: BUF
Nicolas Jauffret	....	software research & development: BUF
Gregory Jennings	....	digital artist: BUF
Fabrice Lagayette	....	visual effects supervisor: BUF
Cynthia Mourou	....	visual effects producer
Isabelle Perin-Leduc	....	digital artist
Nolwenn Rimbault	....	digital artist: BUF
Jean-Gabriel Saint-Paul	....	visual effects consultant
Danita Slaughter	....	digital opticals editor
Thomas Mathai	....	data manager (uncredited)

Especialistas
Matt Berkoski	....	stunt player
Scott Burik	....	stunt rigger
Bob Colletti	....	stunt double
Jeffrey Lee Gibson	....	stunt rigger
Dave Pope	....	stunts: band member
Stephen A. Pope	....	stunt coordinator (as Stephen Pope)

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Sebastián Almeida	....	assistant camera
Diaz Alzaro	....	grip
Tony Arnaud	....	best boy grip
Kelly Britt	....	electrician
Anne Carson	....	assistant camera
Lamont Crawford	....	key grip
Andrea Cronin-Souza	....	electrician
Fernando Gayesky	....	additional assistant camera
Abbot Genser	....	still photographer
Sandy Hays	....	steadicam operator
Charles Libin	....	additional camera operator: "b" camera
Kim Marcelino	....	additional electrician
Michael C. Maronna	....	electrician
John C. Nadeau	....	gaffer
Chris Norr	....	camera operator: 'a' camera
Craig Pecchia	....	camera intern
Christopher Raymond	....	assistant camera
Brooke Stanford	....	electrician
John Tanzer	....	generator operator
Dana Turken	....	additional camera loader
Craig Vaccaro	....	key rigging grip
Craig Paul Harris	....	electrician (uncredited)
J. Dan Wright	....	light balloon technician (uncredited)

Departamento de reparto
Nicole Abellera	....	casting associate
Joanne Bloom	....	casting assistant
Kathleen Chopin	....	additional casting
Morgan Donaho	....	casting assistant
Mellicent Dyane	....	extras casting

Departamento de vestuario
Jessica Chaney	....	key on-set costumer
Jackie S. Freeman	....	additional costumer
Tonya Huskey	....	costume supervisor

Departamento de Edición
Kenny Becker	....	color timer
Terra Bliss-Alvarez	....	digital intermediate producer (as Terra Bliss)
Eileen Godoy	....	digital intermediate producer
Nat Jencks	....	assistant editor
Alex Kopit	....	first assistant editor
Natasha Leonnet	....	digital film colorist
Curtis Lindersmith	....	digital intermediate editor
Marc Lulkin	....	digital color assist
Scott Maloney	....	telecine colorist
Tom Reiser	....	digital intermediate color assist
Alec Styborski	....	editing room assistant
Justin Worthington	....	digital intermediate assistant

Departamento de Música
Jean-Michel Bernard	....	conductor
Jean-Michel Bernard	....	orchestrator
Dan Bora	....	music preparation
Hector Castillo	....	score engineer
Linda Cohen	....	music supervisor
Pedro H. da Silva	....	musician: electric guitar
Tass Filipos	....	music editor
François Gauthier	....	assistant score engineer
Michel Gondry	....	musician: drums, play
Bruno Mercere	....	music recording mixer
Bruno Mercere	....	score engineer
Nico Muhly	....	additional orchestrator
Ichiho Nishiki	....	assistant score engineer
Jean-Michel Tavernier	....	orchestra manager
Adam Thompson	....	assistant score engineer

Departamento de Transporte
Matthew Callagy	....	driver
William Ferrick	....	driver
William 'Mac' Maquez	....	driver
Ed Savago	....	driver

Otros miembros del equipo
Nick Aase	....	intern
Daniel Atherton	....	production assistant
John Bair	....	title designer: main titles
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances
Dawn Barkan	....	animal coordinator
Anna Bosco	....	payroll accountant
Katie Brewer Ball	....	production assistant
Rich Brush	....	production assistant
Lauren Buchholz	....	production assistant
Al Cerullo	....	helicopter pilot
Wayne Cerullo	....	ground operator
Chris Cloud	....	unit location assistant
Alison S. Cohen	....	production counsel
Wendy Cohen	....	additional clearances
Mary Cybulski	....	script supervisor
Alison Davis	....	assistant production coordinator
Gleanna Doyle	....	cat trainer
May Elbaz	....	principal stitcher
Scott Ferlisi	....	location assistant
T.G. Firestone	....	behind-the-scenes documentarian
Amanda Foley	....	location coordinator
Laurence Granec	....	press attache: France
Eddie Griffith	....	production assistant
Alexander Hammer	....	production assistant
Peter Hutchison	....	production accountant
Lisa Kelley	....	additional production assistant
Jeremy Konner	....	assistant: Jack Black
Nic Marshall	....	production intern
Karine Menard	....	press attache: France
John Merchant	....	production secretary
Kirsten Norr	....	set production assistant
Alex Paster	....	additional set production assistant
Derek Pastures	....	parking coordinator
Andrew Poppoon	....	location assistant
Oliver Refson	....	production assistant
Guillaume Renberg	....	remote head technician
Christina I. Rodriguez	....	production assistant: first team
Ben Schoen	....	title designer: end titles
Julia Seidel	....	additional production assistant
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances
Ricardo Uhagon Vivas	....	set production assistant
Julie Van den Bulck	....	assistant: Georges Bermann
Gayle Vangrofsky	....	location manager
Christian Vendetti	....	key production assistant
Daniel Wagner	....	production office coordinator
Marc Walsh	....	first accountant
Atilla Yucer	....	key production assistant
Russ Klein	....	set production assistant (uncredited)
Nicholas Walker	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Gracias
Walter F. Parkes	....	thanks
Ivan Reitman	....	thanks

Compañías Productores

• New Line Cinema (presents)
• Partizan (as Partizan Films)
• Focus Features

Distribuidores

• CatchPlay (2008) (Taiwan) (all media)
• Focus Features (2008) (non-USA) (theatrical) (as Focus Features International)
• Pathé Distribution (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• New Line Cinema (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• A-Film Distribution (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• Discovery Film & Video Distribution (2008) (Croatia) (all media)
• Distribution Company (2009) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• EuropaCorp. Distribution (2008) (France) (theatrical)
• Gativideo (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Monopole-Pathé (2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• New Line Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Odeon (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Paradise Group (2008) (Russia) (all media)
• Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Sandrew Metronome Distribution (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Sandrews (2008) (Sweden) (DVD)
• Senator Film (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Senator Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Shaw Organisation (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Tiglon (2008) (Turkey) (all media)
• Tohokushinsha Film (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (UK) (DVD)
• UFA/DVD (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Switzerland) (DVD)

Efectos especiales

• BUF (visual effects)
• Partizan Lab (additional visual effects)

Otras Compañías

• Adidas  thanks
• Arms Length  camera cranes
• Arms Length  grip equipment
• C5  post-production sound facility
• Camera Service Center  Arriflex cameras
• Camera Service Center  camera dollies
• Camera Service Center  electric equipment
• Creative Mega Playground  video transfers
• Deluxe  prints (as Deluxe Labs)
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production
• Dubway Studios  additional music recorded at
• EFilm  digital intermediate (as EFilm Digital Laboratories)
• Edgeworx  main titles
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Fantasy Studios  additional music recorded at
• Gotham Sound  walkies provided by
• Joe Dunton & Company  anamorphic lenses provided by
• Lakeshore Records  soundtrack
• Looking Glass Studios  additional music recorded at
• Modern VideoFilm  telecine (as Modern Video Film)
• New York and Greenwood Railway  thanks
• Panavision  camera cranes
• Paris Symphonic Orchestra  orchestra
• Post Factory NY  post-production facilities
• Scarlet Letters  end titles
• Sessions Payroll Management  extras payroll
• Sound One Corporation  adr recorded at
• Sound One Corporation  sound mixed at
• Soundtrack New York  adr recorded at (as Soundtrack NY)
• Spacecam Systems  gyro-stabilized camera system
• Studio Omega  music recording studio
• Studio Omega  score mixed at
• Water Music  additional music recorded at
• Wilshire Stages, The  ADR recording facility

También conocida como:

Originalmente pirata (Mexico) [es]
Rebobinados (Argentina) [es]
Rebobine, por favor (Spain) (TV title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual references. (also video version)

Duración:

102 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:12A | USA:PG-13 (certificate #43318) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | UK:12A | Canada:G (Québec) | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Norway:7 | Denmark:A | Sweden:Btl | Singapore:PG | Germany:o.Al. | Malaysia:U | Finland:K-3 | Greece:K | Netherlands:AL | USA:PG-13 | Hong Kong:IIA | Australia:M | France:U | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Iceland:L

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

Compañía:

New Line Cinema

Trivialidades:

The reason for Jack Black's hilarious version of the "Ghostbusters" theme song was simply because the legal department didn't have the rights to Ray Parker Jr.'s song yet.

Citas:

Jerry: We did it...because we're Ghostbusters!
[gives thumbs up]

Conexiones de Película:

References Predator 2 (1990)

Banda de Sonido:

Ma Maison

Black and Def are excellent, but the rest of the film is just disappointing

Just reading a brief synopsis got me fairly hyped for Be Kind Rewind. The film was written and directed by Michel Gondry, who directed my favourite movie in the last five years, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so it was a no-brainer that this would be a movie I would want to see. But unfortunately, the idea seemed to be a whole lot better than the final product.

Mike (Mos Def) works at an aging video rental story in New Jersey run by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). Despite the advent of DVD, the store only carries VHS tapes, and rents them to local customers at a fee far cheaper than the usual rental store. The store is apparently a landmark, so Mr. Fletcher does not want to give into local developers looking to turn the block into a nice piece of real estate. He leaves Mike in charge for a few days, but leaves specific instructions for him to not his friend Jerry (Jack Black) into the store. He does, and after a rather amusing accident, Jerry manages to erase all of the tapes in the store. To help cover this up, Mike and Jerry begin to film their own versions of the films.

It sounds creative on paper, but Be Kind Rewind is too muddled in subplots to really take advantage of its outrageous idea. The entire landmark dispute becomes rather boring and annoying right after it is mentioned, and the frequent mention of jazz musician Fats Waller loses its sentimental and nostalgic touch far too early on in the film. It just lacks the focus of Eternal Sunshine, and lacks the daring scope of The Science of Sleep, another film by Gondry. While Sleep was not all that great either, it seems to have had a much better grip on the point of the movie than Rewind does. It mopes around far too much, and I found myself more bored than I ever thought I would be watching it. I wanted to be interested, but the film did not make for many interesting moments. It has a sense of purpose and clearly knows what it wants to accomplish, but allowing it to seems to be an issue the film can never overcome.

One of these reasons may be the lack of depth in the characters. We learn very little about Mike or Jerry, and their pasts and motivations seem to never come up. We just know the basics, and that seems to be enough. Ditto for Mr. Fletcher, the frequent customer Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow) and Alma (Melonie Diaz), who seems to get thrown into the mix rather randomly half way through the film, and never seems to fully materialize as anything other than being a female in a primarily male dominated main cast. Gondry clearly has a point for these characters to be here interacting (and a couple of curious supporting characters like Irv Gooch's Wilson, who lend the film a lot of its laughs), but he does not seem to want to make them be anything more than near one-dimensional cut-outs. I do not want to make them seem as simplistic as that, but more often than not, I really found myself not seeing anything other than that.

When the film actually gets to its key drawing point, the re-filming of the VHS movies (or sweding as the film refers to it as), it does bring in a lot of that creative depth Gondry is known for. Using many different angles and stylistic devices, Gondry remakes specific scenes out of these movies with ease, and brings a lot of humour to them as well. Watching Def and Black redo Ghostbusters is absolutely hysterical, as is their redoing of Driving Miss Daisy, King Kong, We Were Kings and 2001: A Space Odyssey. But unfortunately, these scenes are really short and sweet, and many of them are never lingered on. Frequently, they are only mere seconds long before the next sweded movie scene comes in. At one point, there is just a scrolling list of movies that are being redone, but barely any are shown on screen. It is a little disappointing, but I did really like the footage that is shown.

While the film's storyline is a little winded, and the character development is a little off, the actors themselves do really well.

Def continues to impress, and helps carry this film from beginning to end. I am never really impressed with his work, but he seems to have a knack for making his characters enjoyable and very human in their design. He just seems to have that natural acting talent that every young actor tries to have, but never can truly create for themselves. Even in its most boring sections, Def delivers a great performance that is insightful and more introspective of what the film could have been had Gondry put more effort into it.

The same goes for Black, who continues to redefine himself as an actor. On one hand, he does his usual screwball schtick to its finest degree, and gets plenty of laughs for it. But on the other, he really develops his dramatic side, one that is seen only in the likes of King Kong (where his performance is not nearly as well liked as I think it is) and pretentious fare like Margot at the Wedding (which I doubt many people will ever attempt to see). It is a fine balance, and Black walks it perfectly throughout the film, and gives a solid performance for one of the film's most undefined characters. Kudos to him for really making something of it.

While the rest of the supporting cast does fairly well for themselves, none ever match the charisma or the chemistry that Def and Black share. And in a film that is disappointing already, that makes it all the more worse.

7/10.