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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Rebound (2009)

This is something approaching a romantic comedy but it veers left and ends up on the drama highway. Sandy is 40, newly divorced, and living with her two kids in Manhattan. Her hustband is discovered to be a long time cheat, and while he doesn't contest her decision to divorce, he is less happy about her living in the city and basically thinks she will flail and come back to him, so he doesn't get ugly tight off the bat. Sandy'a apartment is over a coffee shop where mid-twenties Aram in also newly divorced--his wife married him for a green card, and once she got it, she went back to her boyfriend who was masquerading as her brother. Sandy gets a high powered job and is launching a career whereas he is aimlessly making coffee. They embark on a romance that is all too real to both of them, but she gets skittish when she sees herself through his parents eyes and realizes it can never work. They go their seperate ways, he to gain purpose and life expereince, she to advance in what she does and neither of them find love elsewhere. It is a bid for people to follow their hearts where these two do not.

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