The Big Bounce

2004 Comedy

George Armitage directs this big-screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's The Big Bounce. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is an occasional thief who tends to a judge (Morgan Freeman). A woman involved with Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), a real estate developer of questionable ethics, seduces Jack. Ritchie and the judge are old enemies, complicating Jack's moral dilemma when the girls asks Jack to help her double-cross Ritchie. The book was adapted once before with Ryan O'Neal in the Owen Wilson role.

Director: George Armitage

Starring: Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen,Gary Sinise

 30 Reviews

Reviews

  • By not trying too hard, this remake of a dumb movie has got spring in its step. The bounce is on us.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    27 April 2013

  • It gets wackier as it goes, starting with Charlie Sheen cast against type as a guy who's getting no sex and turns down the chance. Bebe Neuwirth has some funny scenes as a lush.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    27 April 2013

  • Like the frosty tropical drinks the people keep sipping here, it's refreshing and icy-cool, a sinful pleasure mixed by experts.

    Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune

    27 April 2013

  • It's too loose and casual, all too willing to trade the writer's trademark wit and literary mischief for slapstick comedy.

    Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter

    27 April 2013

  • Go in with lowered expectations, and expect to have them dashed.

    Joe Morgenstern - The Wall Street Journal

    27 April 2013

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