Plot: In Passaic, New Jersey, Mr. Fletcher owns an old VHS Be Kind Rewind Video Store in a condemned building, where he works with his stepson Mike. Mr. Fletcher is proud of his building and claims that Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was born there. However, the City Hall wants to relocate the store and demolish the building. Mr. Fletcher needs to travel and advises Mike to keep his dysfunctional friend Jerry out of the store. But Jerry develops a conspiracy theory against the machines and decides to sabotage the power plant. Jerry inadvertently has an accident and gets magnetized. When he visits Mike in the video store, he accidentally erases all the tapes. Meanwhile, Mr. Fletcher's friend Miss Falewicz comes to the video store to check over and rent "Ghostbusters". Mike and Jerry decide to hide the accident and remake the film.
Alternative Plot: After a man (Jack Black) accidentally creates a magnetic field that erases a store's videotapes, he hatches a daring scheme to help his friend (Mos Def), a clerk at the store, keep his job. The two friends set out to re-create the most popular titles in the store's inventory, ranging from "The Lion King" to "Robocop."
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