![]() ![]() Gerard finds himself attracted to Alicia's mother, a widow. The uncle takes a liking to George and teaches him a Spanish dance. But Gerard convinces him to stick around for the night, telling him to "jump tomorrow."Īlicia's fiancé ends up in bed the whole time after Alicia's uncle, a deaf-mute, offers him a spicy dish his stomach can't handle. When they arrive at the home of Alicia's family, who are meeting Alicia's fiancé for the first time, George wants to leave. Meanwhile, Alicia and George find themselves falling for each other. Alicia's fiancé Nathan practices t'ai chi in the rain and argues with Gerard about whether the French language is obsolete. But Gerard gives a heartfelt speech about love, and he convinces George to stick with him.Īlicia and her fiancé hitch a ride with George and Gerard, thinking their sudden appearance a coincidence. The next day, George wants to resume his journey alone. He never crosses paths with Alicia, whose boyfriend gives her an engagement ring made of bone. A reluctant George ends up inviting to his room a saleswoman who calls herself "Heather Leather." But he doesn't know that she's allergic to cologne, and disaster ensues. Gerard advises George to gain Alicia's attention by making her jealous. They all end up at a hotel with a love motif and a variety of strange furniture, including a bathtub in the form of a giant champagne glass. George spots Alicia and her boyfriend at a gas station, and Gerard talks George into following them. George is a passive individual who does not seem troubled by the idea of marrying someone he does not love. The compassionate Gerard figures out that George is not in love with his fiancée, a childhood friend whom his family has always expected him to marry. The movie spoofs Spanish soap operas in fantasy sequences where George imagines himself and Alicia as characters on the show. On the road, George buys an audiocassette to learn Spanish and secretly fantasizes about Alicia. Out of gratitude, Gerard offers to drive George to his wedding. A drunk Gerard goes to the roof and attempts suicide, but George talks him out of it by telling him to "jump tomorrow." There, George finds himself attracted to Alicia, but she is already dating a British professor, Nathan. To cheer him up, George takes him to Alicia's party. Three days before his wedding, George meets two intriguing people: Alicia (Verbeke), a Spanish woman who invites him to a party that night, and Gerard (Girardot), an unlucky-in-love Frenchman who has just been turned down for a marriage proposal. It is based on a short film called Jorge. It concerns George (Adebimpe), a shy, bespectacled man who is about to marry a fellow Nigerian American woman named Sophie Ochenado, played by Abiola Abrams, when he falls for a Spanish woman. Jump Tomorrow is a 2001 British independent romantic comedy film written and directed by Joel Hopkins, starring Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, and Natalia Verbeke.
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