Jump Tomorrow

Description

A "refreshing, good-natured romp" (The Hollywood Reporter) from writer-director Joel Hopkins, Jump Tomorrow is a "genuinely charming" (Variety) screwball comedy set on the road to romantic self-discovery. "Quirky and good-natured" (New York Post), this funny and touchingmovie is simply "hard to resist" (The New York Times)! In three days, shy, awkward George (Tunde Adebimpe) is to be married to a girl his family has selected to be his wife. But when he stumbles into Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), a vivacious Spanish beauty who stirs in him feelings he'snever known, and Gerard (Hippolyte Girardot), a love-obsessed Frenchman who teaches him a lesson ortwo about amour, George is thrown into an emotional tizzy. Now he must decide: Should he follow through with his familial obligations or follow his heart to Alicia?

Customer Reviews:

Don't do it!.......2007-02-04

Quirky fun, with quirky characters falling in love and second guessing themselves and wondering why they fall in love and second guess themselves; frustrated they consider suicide, luckily a fun Frenchman figures out how to help. For a romantic comedy it's pretty OK.

Multidimensional Mellotronic Cinema.......2005-07-27

Jump Tomorrow opens cold, but is warmed over by the stylistic pathos and groovy music.. The director has said his goal was to create a world that implied alternate-reality but doesn't quite force it down our throats. Aided by the protagonist's quirkish clumsiness and initial cubicle drone personality, the running Soundtrack and oddly retro at the modernist lounge designs, the movie succeeds at an extremely oblique sort of "magic realism".

As characters are introduced, interactions occur (in a great combination of slapstick, situational, and deadpan comedy), humanity is added to the film... characters whose singular flaws and stereotypes were embedded to the point of near caricature become sympathetic enough to recognize the human goop beneath. The stylistic devices slide to the background, but are still pronounced enough to maintain that sly otherworldliness.

The resulting movie is most complete-feeling... by the end I had both Smiled and Laughed. Surreal warm fuzzy mellotronic cinema... the best romantic comedy I've seen since High Fidelity (where it succeeds, as with every other good Romantic Comedy, is in taking the cemented stereotypes of the genre and rearranging them to the point where the only recognizable traits are that it is both Romantic, and Comedic, but hardly resembles any other).

i don't know why i loved this movie so much.......2005-07-26

i saw it on ifc the other night and the only reason i watched it was because tunde adibimpe, the lead singer of my favorite band tv on the radio, is in it. it was pretty much a "chick flick" and it was kinda slow at parts, but it made me feel really happy after watching it.

A ROMANTIC GEM.......2005-07-21

It's very rare these days to find a romantic comedy that is both romantic and funny, I was greatly satisfied with Jump Tomorroe. I remember seeing the short film Jorge by the same writer-director (Joel Hopkins) and it had the same actor who played Jorge (Tunde Adebimpe). All the actors were ejoyable and had great chemistry. The script is funny and often hilarious and the directing is quirky and cool. It's also rare to see and indie film that's PG, most are PG-13 or R, it's amazing. There is some language but only about three maybe four curse words used. Truly remarkable, a must see film. PS, if you can find the short film Jorge definitley see it as well.

One good movie.......2004-04-23

This is a very enjoyable "girlie" movie, but really guys listen up, if your girl friend wants to pop this DVD in: go for it. Though the plot is a romantic, the characters bring to life a very fresh movie style and not only smart humor but funny humor.
Sorry theirs no nude bodies running around or Jerry Springer fights, but a very well thought out plot that is understandable and enjoyable.
It's about time some one can put out a decent movie that doesn't have anything to do with drugs, or uses the f word to start every conversation. This movie will bring a couple together, I'll put a dollar on it.. I really like this movie and wish it could be found in stores. From a real dude~

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