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.
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
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
Nov 17, 2000 Wide
Apr 10, 2001
$35.8M
Miramax Films
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.
This touching, finely wrought bowl of suds is a seamless piece of work.
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.
By letting star power and commercial considerations warp good storytelling judgment, Roos has shortchanged his own movie, not to mention the audience.
Don Roos' dialogue is a cut above the norm.
I wanted [Buddy and Abby] to become lovers, which means they sold me on themselves.
Entertaining story of fate, alcoholism, and love.
The fact that it remains watchable and enjoyable is a credit to its actors and its writer ...
What should have been graceful understatement instead reads as lifeless detachment.
Affleck and Paltrow seem to be enjoying their roles far more than we do.
Heavy-handed, unbelievable, predictable, and when without Gwenyth, a not very exciting film to find oneself bouncing ultimately boredly through.
Seems too slight and shallow to really work as a drama.
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.
Mais Que o Acaso se salva graças ao desempenho de seus protagonistas e à química existente entre estes.
Two strangers fell in love. One knew it wasn't by chance.
December 15, 2009
Super Reviewer
There wasn't a lot of noise with this movie, but I loved it! It was a sad, but sweet movie.
March 9, 2009
Super Reviewer
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