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Bounce (2000)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 51

Critics say Bounce is more of a thud. Plot turns feel cliched and contrived, and the romance between Paltrow and Affleck fails to engage.

44

Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 18

Critics say Bounce is more of a thud. Plot turns feel cliched and contrived, and the romance between Paltrow and Affleck fails to engage.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 21,107

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Movie Info

In this romantic comedy-drama, two people whose lives were touched by the same tragedy find love. Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a successful L.A. advertising executive who has a way with the ladies, but inside he longs for a meaningful long-term relationship. One day Buddy sells his seat on a sold-out airline flight to a stranger; he's shocked when the jet crashes and the man is killed. A year later, still haunted by the incident, Buddy looks up Abby Janello (Gwyneth Paltrow), the victim's

PG-13, 1 hr. 46 min.

Drama, Romance

Don Roos

Apr 10, 2001

$35.8M

Miramax Films

Cast

All Critics (116) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (51) | DVD (18)

Two movies in one -- lively when people are talking, lame when things are happening.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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This touching, finely wrought bowl of suds is a seamless piece of work.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Resembles the compromised movies [Roos] used to write for the studios, though it's more like Boys on the Side than his dreaded rewrite of Diabolique.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Film.com
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By letting star power and commercial considerations warp good storytelling judgment, Roos has shortchanged his own movie, not to mention the audience.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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Don Roos' dialogue is a cut above the norm.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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I wanted [Buddy and Abby] to become lovers, which means they sold me on themselves.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Entertaining story of fate, alcoholism, and love.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

The fact that it remains watchable and enjoyable is a credit to its actors and its writer ...

January 15, 2005 Comment
Looking Closer

What should have been graceful understatement instead reads as lifeless detachment.

December 28, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Poop Shoot | Comment
Movie Poop Shoot

Affleck and Paltrow seem to be enjoying their roles far more than we do.

June 25, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment

Heavy-handed, unbelievable, predictable, and when without Gwenyth, a not very exciting film to find oneself bouncing ultimately boredly through.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Seems too slight and shallow to really work as a drama.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

a major disappointment from writer-director Don Roos, who previously created the scathingly funny "The Opposite of Sex." ...this muddled drama is more like the opposite of interesting.

June 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

Mais Que o Acaso se salva graças ao desempenho de seus protagonistas e à química existente entre estes.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
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Two strangers fell in love. One knew it wasn't by chance.

December 15, 2009
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There wasn't a lot of noise with this movie, but I loved it! It was a sad, but sweet movie.

March 9, 2009
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Nani V

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