Bounce is a
2000
film starring
Gwyneth Paltrow
and
Ben Affleck, and directed by
Don Roos.
Plot
Advertising executive 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 Los
Angeles
on that very airline. He meets fellow
traveler Greg (
Tony Goldwyn), who opts
to be bumped, even though it means missing an outing with his son.
When the flight is resumed, Buddy thinks he's doing a good deed by
giving his ticket to Greg so he can get home to his son. While
spending the night with fellow stranded passenger Mimi (
Natasha Henstridge), he discovers via the
television news that Greg's flight crashes. Buddy had conspired
with his friend Janice Guerrero (
Jennifer
Grey), the ticket agent that night, to take his name off the
passenger list and put Greg's on.
Once he's back in LA, Buddy's new client dictates that the company
run a series of feel-good ads about the crash. Buddy feels guilty
for putting Greg on the plane, and drunkenly (and publicly) acts
out when the commercials win a
Clio
award. After going through an insincere stint in
Alcoholics Anonymous, Buddy arranges to
meet Greg's family and eventually falls in love with the deceased
man's widow, Abby (Paltrow), and her two young sons.
Buddy helps Abbey sell an already identified commercial property to
his firm, accompanies the family to Palm Springs to overcome the
boys fear of flying and carefully builds a relationship that
frightens both him and Abby. Abby maintains she is divorced, while
Buddy never lets on that he met Greg. It all comes apart when Mimi
gives Abby a short video of Greg and Buddy me in the airport bar.
Buddy goes on trial for Greg's death; he is found not responsible
for the airline's disregard for safety, but when he is excused from
the witness stand he questions that he is really "excused" for his
actions. Buddy then resigns from the firm.
Abby, who had seen the trial on TV, tells Buddy that she feels
guilty that Greg had boarded the plane because she pressured him to
come home. Buddy persuades her to stay a bit longer by asking for
her help to sell or rent his beach home, and the two resume their
romance.
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