Bounce
2000
When Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) decides to have a casual fling with a woman he meets in an airport, he gives up his ticket to Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn), an earnest man on standby for the flight who is desperate to get home to his wife and child. But when the plane crashes because of snowy conditions, killing everyone on board,.. Read more
| Starring | Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Goldwyn, Alex D. Linz |
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| Director | Don Roos |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Bounce
When Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) decides to have a casual fling with a woman he meets in an airport, he gives up his ticket to Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn), an earnest man on standby for the flight who is desperate to get home to his wife and child. But when the plane crashes because of snowy conditions, killing everyone on board, Buddy plunges into a sea of despair and confusion. At the edge of a nervous breakdown, Buddy seeks out Abby Janello (Gwyneth Paltrow), Greg's widow. He approaches Abby, who works as a real estate agent, under the pretense of finding a new location for his advertising agency. But, he never reveals that he knows about her husband's death. While his only intention is to do a good deed for the grieving Abby, Buddy slowly finds himself falling in love with her, and she responds to him with a similar sincerity. The only thing keeping them apart is the dark secret that Buddy is hiding.
BOUNCE is writer-director Don Roos's follow-up to his engaging, clever, independent debut, THE OPPOSITE OF SEX. Like that film, BOUNCE examplifies Roos's knack for writing witty dialogue and using it to make a intelligent, sweet films.
| Starring | Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Goldwyn, Alex D. Linz, Natasha Henstridge, Joe Morton, Jennifer Grey |
|---|---|
| Director | Don Roos |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Oct 2004 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
Bounce (2000)
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Director Don Roos follows up his acerbic comedy The Opposite of Sex with this interesting, if not wholly successful, romantic drama. Ben Affleck is the brash advertising guy who gives up his seat on a plane to a man who wants to get home to his wife — only to hear the next morning that the plane crashed, killing all on board. Racked with guilt, Affleck takes refuge in the bottle and later seeks out the man's widow (Gwyneth Paltrow), who has no idea about his role in her husband's death. Paltrow is moving as the bereaved young wife, while Affleck is well cast as the arrogant young lothario whose life almost falls apart. Slow in places, and a bit overly sentimental in others, this is nonetheless a well played, sharply written and bittersweet romance.
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"...Comparable in its craft to JERRY MAGUIRE and AS GOOD AS IT GETS....Gywneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck emerge from the movie as the most romantic coupling to animate a Hollywood film in quite some time..."
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competent, not outstanding
The Radio Times review above is pretty much on the mark.
Don Roos has an obsession with secrets and coincidences, and they're dealt with interestingly enough in this film, though it's not as sharp and acidic as 'The Opposite of Sex'or 'Happy Endings', his latest. But both Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Afflect act actorishly, not like real people, and that can grate after a while.
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14 out of 16 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
competent, not outstanding
The Radio Times review above is pretty much on the mark.
Don Roos has an obsession with secrets and coincidences, and they're dealt with interestingly enough in this film, though it's not as sharp and acidic as 'The Opposite of Sex'or 'Happy Endings', his latest. But both Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Afflect act actorishly, not like real people, and that can grate after a while.
But it's entertaining enough and mildly thought-provoking. -
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