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Show TT NOVEMBER WASATCH COUNTY COURIER 22, 2000 | | : : re. iy er MOVIE REVIEW Romantic Regression what he has done, he takes a dive into - Bounce *&* STARS _the bottle. He makes a drunken fool of | ‘himself at an advertising awards ban- WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DON ROOS. STARRING GWYNETH PALTROW, BEN AFFLECK, NATASHA HENSTRIDGE, JOHNNY GALECKI, JOE MORTON, TONY GOLDWYN , ALEX D. LINZ AND DAVID DORFMAN Review by Paul Swenson -quet when a campaign he has helped devise, to allow the airline to memorial_ ize the victims, wins an award. These scenes are supposed to build sympathy for an unsympathetic charac- ter, and indeed the ad banquet houldn’t a movie called Bounce sequence doesn’t pull punches in satirizing the cynicism of the ad_ biz. have some lift — a little recoil — Affleck is best at playing Amaral at his elasticity? MATTRESS GREAT PRICES! oo TAT TN GUARANTEED SALE significant issues, that doesn’t play fair with the essential facts ofits screenplay? As Bounce opens, Affleck’s Amaral, Seth replies. He also won’t go for any guff by lying to Abby on Buddy’s a behalf. Meanwhile, Amaral himself is businesswoman (Natasha . Henstridge) as potential bedmates dur- weaseling what he can from the relaing a possible airport hotel layover, as.a ~ tionship, procrastinating his confession Chicago’s about how he happened into her life. When Mimi improbably shows up on _ is finally called, he winks at the blonde who has a hotel key in her hot little Abby’s doorstep with the long lost videotape, it’s time to pay the piper. As a symbol of Amaral’s self-involved lifestyle, she could be a key to Buddy’s denial and to snowstorm swirls outside O’Hare Airport. When Amaral’s flight hand, and impulsively forks over the free ticket from his client’s airline to Greg (Tony Goldwyn), a passenger he has just met, who wants to get home to his wife and young sons in Los Angeles. (The McGuffin in the screenplay is a videotape that Amaral makes _ of the airport proceedings, which we know will pop up later.) The plane, of course, goes down in Kansas, and when Amaral realizes- Siren Neate flintttnen this its ST eg oe ~ AVAILABLE IN OTHER SIZES glass in a Men’s room at the party that airline rep (Jennifer Grey, ) and Mimi, blonde PILLOW TOP Seth Johnny Galecki). “You know alco- | holism is a disease,” Amaral says piously when Seth catches him about to take a swig from someone else’s whisky fresh froma killing in the advertising - welcomes him back from rehab. “Yeah, game (he’s just landed a new account you can catch it from. open bottles,” with an airline) is juggling Janice, an I i 499" is Pe note confronting his inner demons. But Roos takes him off the hook, and Abby never finds out where Buddy spent the night her husband died. If making a dishonest “upbeat” movie for the mythical main- stream is supposed to be a step up from fashioning a downbeat but truthful one (Election), Roos will be just one more filmmaker Hollywoodized by success. Sleeperaft _= Four Seasons | im Pillow | Top $499"||/$399) _ Classic. QUEEN SET ee.....ns $179 Sah Full Size Set. King Size Set. ..... Span Horizon Pillow Top e Twin Set: 3... ... $299 Full We Size es Set. :.. .$349 $599 1p ng | oe See ops a { Twin Set. pt. $499 Full Size < Set. .. » 6549 eG § King Size Set. . . .$ Aiea TINT] SAME CASH AS OAC seer with single struck .as a minor chord by a peripheral character, Buddy’s breezy, funny and painfully blunt gay male secretary, © dealing The film’s truest QUEEN SIZE. ee mn, romance,’ and crawl, as to reconcile. ironic than a a “serious QUEEN SIZE a break each other’s hearts it were, over broken glass Is there anything more movie marketed as nea - maker made both pictures. Election had some originality, while Bounce rehashes - one of the oldest Hollywood formulas: star-crossed lovers meet cute (a sce- _ her car in a fast food parking lot, then nario involving a Rottweiler locked in a_ trying to kiss her off when she calls Be office... bathroom — don’t ask), fall in love, keep important secrets from each other, STINET Nn oe IN than subtle move, Buddy arranges for | Abby’s first. big real estate contract (she’s a novice broker), since his advertising firm is looking for new L.A. office space. Soon he’s kissing her in +7 ge Election. It’s true that most moviegoers would never guess that the same film- i -hinzand are proclaiming Bored out of their gourds: Gwyneth Paltrow as _ Dy David ‘Dorfman, Bounce _—_irony- _ Abby and Ben Affleck as Buddy in Bounce. with more free, as opposed panache a believability, incidentally, to. writer-director Don Roos’s “sardonic than many of the adult roles). In a less little comic shocker of last year, PT worst, and Roos has some: honesty working for him at this point. Its when Curiously, this relentlessly - retro romance about two people brought. Buddy is supposed to transform into a together by the guilt and tragedy of a nice guy that the film feels false. fatal plane crash never gets off the ‘The picture jumps right over his ground — despite the fact that one of rehab with a single title (“Eight Months Later”), and as Buddy walks them is the always engaging Gwyneth Paltrow. out of the treatment center he’s no less Part of the problem i is that her part- full of himself (as far as’ we can tell) than when he walked in — sober or ner in predictability is the less-than affasoused. When he-spots the suggestion ble Ben Affleck, here cast as arrogant in his AA reading material that part of adman’ Buddy Amaral. During the course of the crash’s aftermath he is his rehabilitation should be attempting to reimburse those he has harmed; we _ supposed to undergo a torturous transcan almost see the wheels turning in _ formation: First down the long neck:of his ne as he aoe his dead friend’s a liquor bottle and then up into the light again —- where eagerness to get back to his wife. Paltrow (as grieving widow Abby ~. It appears that Roos wants to Janello) waits as suggest a mixture sort of. thel3th of motives on Step parle _ Amaral’s part: Alcoholics after he meets Anonymous’ 12Abby and makes step program. a hit with her kids Its curious (played by Alex that some critics (435) 654-1817 _ 480 | North Main z= ¢ Heber City | ae : ICN, atin. meen evidence of an some |