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VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Bounce</B> **1/2 (PG-13)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Reviewed By George O. 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Linz</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Mrs. Guererro: Jennifer Grey</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Mimi: Natasha Henstridge</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Director: Don Roos</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Greg Janello: Tony Goldwyn</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: A businessman exchanges airline tickets with a person he meets in the airport lounge. He wants to get home to his family and the other guy wants to spend the night with a woman he just met. The plane crashes; there are no survivors.  The Good Samaritan, with the ulterior motive and a truckload of guilt, seeks out the widow and eventually falls in love with her. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Buddy (Ben Affleck) meets Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn in an airport that is socked in with extensive weather related airline delays. Playboy Buddy also meets Mimi (Natasha Henstridge), and their roving eyes decide that it's sex at first sight. She has a free hotel voucher for getting bumped off the flight. Buddy is a frequent flyer, with a gazillion miles, and is given preference by the airline to get out sooner. Greg's wife, Abby (Gwyneth Paltrow), wants him home to help her and their son Scott (Alex D. Linz) sell Christmas trees at a school fund raiser. Buddy exchanges tickets with him, which puts Greg on the plane and Buddy in bed with Mimi.</div> <bR> <div> After the plane crash, Buddy becomes a heavy drinker, in part because he really has no moral focus. His publicity firm has Infinity Air as a major client and he finds that he is putting a positive spin on the air crash. Eventually he decides to track down the widow Abby, and he throws some real estate business her way. </div> <bR> <div> Over time they fall in love with each other. The relationship, however, is based upon lies, as he has not told her he was supposed to be on the plane instead of her husband, and has helped her out of pity. Abby does not want people feeling sorry for her and rather than saying her husband was killed in an accident, she says that they are divorced. </div> <bR> <div> Eventually the lies come out into the open, and Buddy and Abby must find a way to continue the relationship or go their separate ways.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: Usually it's the comedies where the trailer tells you all you want or need to know about a film. The preview told us about the exchange of airline tickets, the subsequent relationship, and Buddy not being truthful about his "accidental" meeting with Abby. Buddy and Abby create a consistent stream of low level sparks that touch you, but never strike an emotional cord that might suggest its time for a tear to fall. Buddy is living an almost perfect life;  Jim (Joe Morton) is his business partner and Abby is making a fast recovery from a devastating loss. </div> <bR> <div> The basic story line is powerful, but the feeling of  being manipulated keeps this love story simmering, when it wants to boil with passion. While many films do have product placements, this one is more distracting than most. Starbucks and Kinkos are worked into the script and almost every time Buddy and Abby sit at a table, a Diet Coke can is in the middle, demanding your attention more than these two Academy Award winning stars. Affleck and Paltrow are two fine actors who are too polished in their roles to give the film the edge of believability, to take it from a so-so film to one that is very good.  They don't appear <I>real</I> enough to give the film strong emotional impact. Abby's character should have been someone who is more emotionally raw than Paltrow. </div> <bR> <div> The strongest and most realistic performance comes from Abby's young son Scott, who is angry about the death of his father. He is so focused on the cause of his death that he plays video games where airplanes crash into the runway. Although predictable, <I>Bounce</I> held my interest. It sets the stage for a big emotional impact at the end, but instead gives us a messy situation in which all the broken pieces are unrealistically joined together. </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> PG-13 (sex; language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. 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