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Overview
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Release Date:
15 November 2000 (USA)
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Tagline:
This October, fall in love with fate. more
Plot:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife. full summary | full synopsis
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Widow
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Airport
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Award Ceremony
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Alcoholism
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Courtroom
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Awards:
2 wins
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(25 articles)
Toronto 2009: "Up in the Air" Flies High
(From IFC. 12 September 2009, 8:23 AM, PDT)
Power Up honors 10 Amazing Gay Men in Showbiz
(From AfterElton.com. 15 June 2009, 2:12 PM, PDT)
(From IFC. 12 September 2009, 8:23 AM, PDT)
Power Up honors 10 Amazing Gay Men in Showbiz
(From AfterElton.com. 15 June 2009, 2:12 PM, PDT)
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Mechanical and fraudulent
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ben Affleck | ... | Buddy Amaral |
 | Gwyneth Paltrow | ... | Abby Janello |
 | Natasha Henstridge | ... | Mimi Prager |
 | Edward Edwards | ... | Ron Wachter |
 | Jennifer Grey | ... | Janice Guerrero |
 | Tony Goldwyn | ... | Greg Janello |
 | Lisa Carpenter-Prewitt | ... | Carol Wilson |
 | Lisa Joyner | ... | T.V. Announcer |
 | Richard Saxton | ... | CNN Reporter |
| Caroline Aaron | ... | Donna |
 | David Dorfman | ... | Joey Janello |
 | Alex D. Linz | ... | Scott Janello |
| Juan García | ... | Kevin Walters |
| Mary Ellen Lyon | ... | Ellen Seitz |
| Joe Morton | ... | Jim Willer |
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Rated PG-13 for some language and sensuality.
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Runtime:
106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:M |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:PG |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #37739) |
Greece:K |
Iceland:L
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Continuity: Buddy's sandwich during the meal after Abby clinches the deal.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Tom Green/David Gray (#26.6)" (2000)
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Soundtrack:
I'm No Ordinary Girl
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While at the airport bar waiting for their planes, ad exec Ben Affleck gives his ticket to a family man anxious to get home to his wife and kids; after the plane crashes, Affleck checks up on the man's widow, even helps get her work, before falling in love with her--and also before disclosing he has something to tell her, something important...but it can wait until tomorrow. As written and directed by Don Roos, "Bounce" follows such a formulaic pattern that everything in it is fraudulent. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the bereaved with a certain amount of sophisticated grace, but her character is always on the verge of making a hasty exit and her dialogue smacks of too-smart little observations thick with script-writer's ink. Affleck is always on the verge of finding a character--and failing (even when he has tears welling up in his eyes, nothing Affleck says or does quite rings true). The picture doesn't exist in any kind of reality--nothing in it appears natural--with decorative city and beach settings that may very well be stock shots. The character conflicts don't balance out for us emotionally, and when Paltrow kicks Affleck out of her house in front of her two kids, she's suddenly so embittered and vindictive that we can't recover from it in time for the finale. There's also the proverbial gal-pal for Paltrow and gay assistant for Affleck who both dish out that kind of 'it-hurts-but-it's-good-for-you' advice prone to romance weepies. It's an assembly-line chick flick for viewers who bounce unceremoniously from one of these movies to the next. ** from ****