Learn English through movie titles! The Proposal and The Rebound are two popular romantic comedies with titles that are great vocabulary words. Proposal is a pun in this context, meaning both “suggestion” and “marriage proposal.” The movie is about a woman who proposes a fake marriage to her younger assistant to avoid being deported. Rebound is a basketball term for a ball that bounces back after hitting the board. It is also used to describe recovering from heartbreak, as in “She is on the rebound.”