The Rebound (2009)
As Shirley MacLaine so memorably says in the fantastic movie Rumor Has It, “Everyone needs someone in their life to let them know when youth has come to an end.” For Catherine Zeta-Jones, that person was whoever convinced her to make the film The Rebound. Like many women who find themselves in that difficult Hollywood age, Catherine must not have known what parts to take. She wasn’t young enough to play traditional romantic leads, and she wasn’t old enough to cross over into “mother” roles. The Rebound is a May-December romance, with the beautiful, alluring Catherine Zeta-Jones in the “December” role. It broke my heart to see her that way, so if you feel the same way I do about her, you might not want to watch this one.
In the film, she finds love in the unexpected source of her children’s male nanny, Justin Bartha. I couldn’t wrap my head around their romance, and I was never rooting for them. There’s no compelling reason for them to be drawn to each other, and Bart Freundlich’s screenplay is silly and unworthy of an Oscar-winning actress. She isn’t at all believable as a single mom with no romantic prospects and financial troubles, when audiences are so used to seeing her in historical epics like The Mask of Zorro, Catherine the Great, and Titanic. I don’t know why she had the desire to destroy her image with this film, but hopefully not very many people saw it.
More Catherine Zeta-Jones movies here!
In the film, she finds love in the unexpected source of her children’s male nanny, Justin Bartha. I couldn’t wrap my head around their romance, and I was never rooting for them. There’s no compelling reason for them to be drawn to each other, and Bart Freundlich’s screenplay is silly and unworthy of an Oscar-winning actress. She isn’t at all believable as a single mom with no romantic prospects and financial troubles, when audiences are so used to seeing her in historical epics like The Mask of Zorro, Catherine the Great, and Titanic. I don’t know why she had the desire to destroy her image with this film, but hopefully not very many people saw it.
More Catherine Zeta-Jones movies here!