Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #82 Be Kind Rewind

#82. Be Kind Rewind

Director/Writer: Michel Gondry
Producers: Georges Bermann (The Science of Sleep), Julie Fong (Block Party)
Distributor: New Line Cinema

The Gist: The wacky premise sees Jack Black star as a loveable loser stuck in a life that’s too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store’s few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to rent.

Fact: This is technically Gondry’s second film starring Mose Def – he was one of the artists jamming it up in Block Party. 

See It: Gondry is the Georges Méliès of the Y2K and despite that this has a solid chance at becoming Gondry’s biggest box office take especially with  the references to favorites such as The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop.

Release Date/Status?: Got its preem at Sundance before a nation wide release on February 22nd.