BOUNCE

Year: 2000
USA: Miramax Films
UK: Buena Vista
Cast: Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natasha Henstridge, Jennifer Grey, Tony Goldwyn, Joe Morton, David Paymer, Johnny Galecki, Alex D Linz, Kimberley Kates, Caroline Aaron, Dan Bucatinsky, Thea Mann, David St James, David Dorfman, Sam Robards, Lisa Carpenter-Prewitt, Nicole Tocantins, Juan Garcia, Mary Ellen Lyon, Edward Edwards, Matthew Frauman, Ty Murphy, Julianne Christie, Scott Alan Smith, Mark Ankeny, Julia Campbell, Michael Laskin, Michael Ayala, Don Amendolia, John Levin, Chris Harrison, Jeff Garlin, Ashley Montgomery, Eric Aude, Richard Saxton, Lisa Joyner, Dave McCharen
Director: Don Roos
Country: USA
UK: 106 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some language and sensuality
UK Certificate: 12 contains one use of strong language and infrequent mild sex references
USA Release Date: 17 November 2000
UK Release Date: 19 January 2001

Synopsis

BOUNCE is a romantic drama about two strangers, a hot shot urban ad exec and a struggling single mom, who fall in love - only one of them knows it wasn't by chance.

Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a single man and Abby Janello (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a single mom with a simple life. The only thing they have in common is that they are both trying to "bounce" back from hard times. More than simply meet, they collide into one another, or so it seems to Abby. As their relationship deepens and Abby feels she may have received that elusive second chance, she comes to realize their first meeting was not as innocent as she'd believe.

From writer/director Don Roos, BOUNCE is a story not only about romance but about romantic reality - and taking chances, plus for Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow this is the first movie they have worked opposite each other as leads.