![]() ![]() ![]() Meets Batteries Not Included, with that naive little outlook on life and even patriotism. You probably don't actually have today in a New Jersey town, and when the store's existence is jeopardized to make way forīig budget condos, the town starts to come together in support of this obsolete video store. The story takes place in a smalltown setting, given the tight community feel that ![]() See, the VHS store, owned and operated byĪn older man who hasn't upgraded at all to DVD's and has only one copy of each movie in his store's inventory, serves as kind I say "Capra-esque" - hesitantly and lightly I must add - because of the mindset of the film. While the filmīears some of the same touches Gondry brought to Eternal Sunshine, Be Kind Rewind is almost Capra-esque. Town VHS video rental store is forced to refilm several popular movies when the tapes get demagnetized. Be Kind Rewind is a light-PG-13 comedy with an almost as-quirky premise, as a small New Jersey His cinematography was imaginative and intriguing, but sadly its unedited form was made for "adult" audiences underĪn R rating. Showing a relationship in a distorted way played backwards through the mind of a man as his memory is being erased. For that flick, Gondry used the unusual premise of Widely known movie prior to this one would be his 2004 indie romantic comedy Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind -Ī movie I've enjoyed unashamedly in an edited form (R.I.P. It's kind of a surprise to find a filmmaker like Michel Gondry making a film like Be Kind Rewind.
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