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George Armitage
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: Warner Home Video
: Comedies, Capers
: 88 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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George Armitage directs this big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is an occasional thief who tends to a judge (Morgan Freeman). A woman involved with Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), a real estate developer of questionable ethics, seduces Jack. Ritchie and the judge are old enemies, complicating Jack's moral dilemma when the girls asks Jack to help her double-cross Ritchie. The book was adapted once before with Ryan O'Neal in the Owen Wilson role. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- The Big Bounce: A Con in the Making
- Wicked Waves: Stunt Surfer Outtakes
- Surfing the Pipeline: Surfing in the Aloha State
- Theatrical Trailer
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| Amazingly light on its feet
by talltale
July 21, 2004 - 4:42 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| The year's only half over, but it's unlikely there will be a movie more underrated than THE BIG BOUNCE. No, it's not great, but it's short, sweet and amazingly light on its feet. As easy-going as its lead Owen Wilson, the film has a director (George Armitage) who manages to keep his terrific ensemble of actors on the same charming and loose wave-length--no mean feat, given a cast that veers from Charlie Sheen to Bebe Neuwirth to Morgan Freeman. There are no belly laughs here, just the kind of smart, savvy/silly talk that will keep a sophisticated soul smiling throughout. The film flopped, but it's hard to believe that Elmore Leonard--on whose work it is based--was not a happy camper upon seeing the result (screenplay by Sebastian Gutierrez). The ending, given all that's come before, is just about perfect, bearing out the notion that, "Sometimes, things ARE just as they appear." (Warning: do not, under any circumstances, mix this movie up with the putrid 1969 version starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young.) |
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