Be Kind Rewind (2008)
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Be Kind Rewind is a comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Melonie Diaz, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on February 22, 2008 in the United Kingdom and in North America.
The title is inspired by a phrase that was commonly displayed on video rental cassettes in America during the medium’s heyday.
In Passaic, New Jersey, the declining “Be Kind Rewind” VHS rental store owned by Mr. Horace Fletcher is due to be demolished to make way for high-end development unless he can find the money to renovate his building, despite his claims that jazz pianist Fats Waller was born in that building. His building is condemned as a slum and the officials give him 60 days to upgrade the building to the required standards or they will demolish it.
Mr. Fletcher leaves on a trip for several days joining some friends to memorialize Waller, as well as visiting a DVD rental store to learn efficient and modernized ways of running a video rental store, leaving his only employee, Mike, to tend to the store. Before leaving Mr. Fletcher cautions Mike to keep his paranoid and klutzy conspiracy theorist friend, Jerry, away from the store
Director: Michel Gondry
Writer: Michel Gondry
Stars: Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Irv Gooch, Chandler Parker
►Cast:
| Jack Black | … | Jerry |
| Yasiin Bey | … | Mike (as Mos Def) |
| Danny Glover | … | Mr. 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 |
| Ted McElwee | … | Video Store Customer |
| Walter Helbig | … | Video Store Customer |
| 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’ 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 |
| Sacha Bourdo | … | Man in queue |
| Olivia Coronel | … | Kid Playing at the Park |
| Steve Cropper | … | Fats Waller’s fan in train |
| Anthony Guerino | … | Laundromat Patron |
| Booker T. Jones | … | Fats Waller’s fan in train |
| Loukas Papas | … | Tophat Harry |
| Jimmy Scott | … | Fats Waller’s fan in train |
| McCoy Tyner | … | Fats Waller’s fan in train |
| Todd Travis Warrick | … | Store Patron |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia