Rebound

A 2009 movie starring Catherine Zeta Jones that eventually went straight to video the movie was cute.

Jones actually is very likable as Sandy a woman in her late thirties, spending her life as a Mom, and being very happy. After a birthday party for one of her young daughters she is watching a video taken at the party, and realizes that someone set the camera down and left it on. As she is about to shut it off she sees her husband and a woman in the kitchen doing things no husband should be doing at his daughter's birthday party.

Flash forward Sandy has now moved to the the city. Quicker than might be expected she lands a job at an ESPN like network, finds an apartment for her kids, and at the coffee shop next door meets a young man who works there and soon becomes her nanny.

Romance ensues, their age difference becomes a factor. They break up. Later they meet again. It is a cute movie. Jones shines with a sparkle I have not seen in some of her bigger movies.

Not a great movie, far from it, certainly better than some of the trash at the theater however. Art Garfunkel is interesting in his role as father of the boyfriend and John Schneider has a bit part that becomes a funny, if kind of gross, scene on a date with Sandy.

I laughed more than I thought I would.