Another rom-com joining It’s Complicated in the Box Office come 2010 will be The Rebound starring Catherine Zeta-Jones (Ocean’s Twelve) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover).

Zeta-Jones plays a housewife and mother of two who discovers her husband has been unfaithful and subsequently leaves him and home for a new life in New York city with her two kids. There she meets a young, fresh faced 25 year old man (Bartha) and the two begin a lustful romance, which only leads to increasingly obvious generation gaps, kids walking in on their the couple having sex and frustrated accusations.

Also starring Jake Cherry, Andrew Cherry, Eliza CallahanKate, Jennings Grant and Lynn Whitfield.

I’m not so sure about Zeta-Jones in a rom-com, it would be probably be as entertaining as chewing gravel but a few reviews have good things to say about her though her acting will never rival that of Chicago or Ocean’s Twelve. One of the more positive things is her on-screen chemistry with Justin Bartha – who undoubtedly is riding a wave of popularity right now after hit comedy The Hangover, you can be sure Bartha can certainly deliver his side of the humour whilst also portraying an infatuated 25 year old chasing after mature love.

Although the movie does convey a deeper meaning as opposed to lightweight rom-coms of this year (The Ugly Truth, The Proposal), you could argue that the plot is still on the weak side, not containing enough substance and could very well turn out to be a ‘miss’ rather than a ‘hit’.

We’ll just have to wait and see when it hits cinemas in April 2010, be sure to tell us what you think.

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The Film Buzz Anticipation Rating: 6.5/10

UK Release Date: 16 April 2010

Director: Bart Freundlich

Writer’s: Bart Freundlich

Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes