Rewind (2020)
96%RT Audience Score: 96%
Awards & Nominations: 4 nominations
Rewind pulls at the roots of a family’s horrific trauma with a deeply personal documentary that’s hard to watch, but worth the effort.
If you’re in the mood for a documentary that will make you feel all the feels, then Rewind is the one for you. It’s like a rollercoaster ride of emotions, but instead of loops and drops, you get to experience the raw and painful journey of a family’s trauma. It’s not an easy watch, but trust me, it’s worth it. The filmmakers really dug deep and got personal with this one, and it shows. So grab some tissues and buckle up, because Rewind is one wild ride.
Production Company(ies)
New Line Cinema, Partizan Films, Partizan
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Streaming
Filming Location(s)
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for some sexual references
Year of Release
2008
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTSS DDS Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 12.39 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Jun 12, 2020
Genre(s)
Documentary/Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $30,579,406
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $42,121,963
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,414
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 4,593,453
US/Canada gross: $11,175,164
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $15,393,361
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,488
US/Canada opening weekend: $4,100,000
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $5,647,593
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,074
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $20,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $27,549,236
Production budget ranking: 1,196
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $14,835,263
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$262,536
ROI to date (est.): -1%
ROI ranking: 1,398
Avela Grenier – Producer
Shasta Grenier – Producer
Robert Schneeweis – Producer
Cindy Meehl – Executive Producer
Director(s)
Sasha Neulinger
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Avela Grenier, Shasta Grenier, Robert Schneeweis
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
4 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (45)
Unquestionably difficult to watch – wait until you learn details of Uncle Harold’s “punishment” – Neulinger’s heroic act of bravery will hopefully encourage and inspire others to come forward.
June 26, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Scott Marks
San Diego Reader
TOP CRITIC
Throughout it all Neulinger remains undaunted and relentless but also artful, as he shows how cinema can both conceal and reveal, how it can evade the truth, or confront it, and by so doing transcend it.
June 5, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
Peter Keough
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
Conveys an unforgettable sense of all that’s stolen when children are abused-as well as the heroic bravery, compassion and togetherness required to combat such cruelty.
May 12, 2020
Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
TOP CRITIC
It’s quite shocking and revelatory… It’s really a powerful movie that accelerates in its power as it goes along.
May 12, 2020
Peter Rainer
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
It’s not a thriller, but it is a horror movie… Beyond being a study in the horrors of a cycle of abuse, it’s also a look at the discrepancies and disparities that occur in our justice system.
May 12, 2020
Christy Lemire
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
A really courageous feat.
May 12, 2020
Claudia Puig
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
“Rewind” is explicitly personal and uncompromisingly truthful…It makes effective use of the genre in a way that couldn’t be achieved in any other form.
July 5, 2022 | Rating: 8/10
Cody Dericks
Next Best Picture
Neulinger revisits arguably the most horrific years of his life with a surprising amount of empathy for his parents, especially Henry.
January 1, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5
Phil Guie
Film-Forward.com
An unshakeable portrait of sexual abuse’s impact on a family, history as the source of explanations, and personality being at the mercy of experience and trauma.
December 19, 2020 | Rating: A-
Matt Pais
MattPais.com
The old footage of Sasha clearly cracking under the strain of his family’s betrayal contrasts poignantly with the strong, centered man he has become.
September 11, 2020 | Rating: 7.7/10
Piers Marchant
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Rewind is not an easy film to watch, but it’s an inspiring example of how someone can confront trauma and use the art of moviemaking as a form of therapy and as a way to help others.
July 12, 2020
Carla Hay
Culture Mix
…its own form of heroic self-analysis that unfolds with a knowing glance towards cinema’s own habits of disguising the truth behind the flash of the camera’s happy filter.
May 30, 2020 | Rating: A-
Glenn Dunks
The Film Experience…
Plot
In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike’s peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade “Ghostbusters” to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The documentary Rewind is directed by Sasha Neulinger, who also appears as a subject in the film.
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