Be Kind Rewind

Director: Michel Gondry

Cast: Mos Def, Jack Black, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Chandler Parker, Irv Gooch, Arjay Smith

(New Line Cinema, 2008) Rated: PG-13

US DVD release date: 18 June 2007 (New Line)

[22 February 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Happy on the Shelf

A set of relationships -- father and son, past and present, fiction and something like history -- forms the foundation of Be Kind Rewind, another gently antic film by Michel Gondry.

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