Bounce Page #4

Synopsis: Buddy (Affleck) has just signed an airline in Chicago as a big client, but is ironically delayed at the airport waiting for a flight to LA on that same airline. He meets fellow passenger Greg, who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an activity with his older son. When the flight gets resumed, Buddy thinks he's doing a good deed by swapping tickets with Greg so he can get home to his son. Sadly, the flight crashes. Buddy conspires with his friend, the ticket agent that night, to take his name off the passenger list and put Greg's on. Once he's back in LA, his new client dictates that the company run a series of feel-good ads about the crash. Buddy feels very hypocritical, and completely loses it when the commercials win a Cleo. After going through re-hab, he decides he needs to check on Greg's widow. But he doesn't plan on falling in love with her.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Don Roos
Production: Miramax Films
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG-13
Year:
2000
106 min
Website
568 Views


Infnity's

already called.

They want us to help out

with damage control,

TV spots, print,

you know.

Yeah.

TV:
Weather conditions

there

improved somewhat

this afternoon,

allowing for the removal

of several sections

of the downed plane...

Jim:
So you might want to

go easy on the drinking.

I don't want you hungover.

Jim:
So, first thing

tomorrow, OK?

[Children Playing]

[Telephone Rings]

Man:

Got it, thanks.

Dionne:
Yeah,

take down the blue ones.

[Ring]

Hey, Dionne,

where's Jim?

Dionne:
No, they're all

in a meeting.

Jim.

Conference room.

Hey, what is this?

What happened

to 6 months

trying to create

a consistent,

you know, brand image

in the public eye?

Who OK'd... What is this?

This is dog sh*t.

Buddy, come on, it's just giving

families numbers to call, OK?

It's not like

tomorrow's ad.

Hey, weren't you supposed

to be on that flight?

No, I, uh, stayed over

another night.

What do you mean,

tomorrow's ad?

That's Todd Exner.

Damage control.

Infnity.

Please, people, um...

We don't have

a lot of time today.

I'll be brief.

I want to thank you all

for your ideas,

but, uh, I'm gonna

recommend to the board

that we go with the concept

thatJosh and Sharon

have been working on.

That's Karen,

actually.

It's based on a wire photo

out of Chicago.

I'm gonna need someone

Exner:
to lockdown the rights

on this, pronto.

[Scoffs]

Is that a joke?

[Laughs]

You got to be kidding me.

You're not gonna run

this sentimental,

self-serving crap.

Excuse me?

Who cares how

Infnity Airlines feel?

Who gives a sh*t?

They crashed the plane.

Buddy:
So what? Right?

Happens all the time.

They'll do

an investigation.

The FAA in 10 months will

say it was a hydraulic line

or a fuel line or a rudder

or something, right?

Buddy:

I mean, sh*t happens.

Happens to TWA,

happens to Delta,

happens to United.

Why are we gonna take

responsibility for bad luck?

I don't think we want

to hide our heads in the sand.

Plus, you don't

originate campaigns.

OK, Karen?

Neither do you, Josh.

We all do, together.

Jim:
Buddy,

this is not about running

the ball around you.

OK, let's get on this,

all right?

Exner:
I want to fax a copy

to the board by noon.

USA Today, New York Times,

Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times.

OK, come on. Let's go.

[Somber Music Playing]

Announcer:

She was the little girl

who won prizes for her art

in grade school.

Swam on

her high school team.

Married

her college sweetheart

and started a family.

While the people of Infinity

mourn the loss of Carol Wilson,

flight attendant,

the people of Clayton,

Missouri,

mourn the girl

they grew up with.

Karen On Answering Machine:

Hey, Buddy,

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Don Roos

Don Roos was born on April 14, 1955 in New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Marley & Me (2008), The Opposite of Sex (1998) and Bounce (2000). He is married to Dan Bucatinsky. They have two children. more…

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