Be Kind Rewind – Sneak Peek – Trailer

From the fiercely imaginative mind of Academy Award-winning writer/director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) comes Be Kind Rewind, a tale of two childhood friends who inadvertently get caught up in a scheme to rewrite film history and, in turn, save their beloved video store from extinction. What results is a heartwarming story featuring a sharp-tongued elderly woman who befriends her chauffeur, an investigation by a team of spectral analysts hunting down ghosts in New York, a heart-pounding adventure about a Hong Kong detective and his foul-mouthed partner, a coming of age story set in South Central Los Angeles, and a genetically re-engineered cop fighting criminals…all rolled into one. Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def) are childhood friends living in Passaic, New Jersey, trying to make ends meet. Jerry is the neighborhood mechanic and lives in a trailer near the power plant which he swears is slowly killing him with its “microwaves.” Across the street, Mike lives and works in the local video rental store, “Be Kind Rewind,” struggling to keep the ailing business owned by his boss, Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) financially afloat and, physically, in one piece. Mr. Fletcher stubbornly refuses to modernize his store to the standards of the local chain DVD rental stores nearby. According to Mr. Fletcher, the worn-down video store was also once home to Jazz legend, Fats Waller, who reportedly was born in the tiny location long before video tapes had <b>…</b>

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