Synopsis
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
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Cast
- Owen WilsonJack Ryan
- Morgan FreemanWalter Crewes
- Gary SiniseRay Ritchie
- Sara FosterNancy Hayes
- Willie NelsonJoe Lurie
- Vinnie JonesLou Harris
- Bebe NeuwirthAlison Ritchie
- Charlie SheenBob Rogers, Jr.
- Harry Dean StantonBob Rogers, Sr.
- Andrew WilsonOfficer Ned Coleman
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
By not trying too hard, this remake of a dumb movie has got spring in its step. The bounce is on us. - 80
L.A. Weekly
It's Wilson who's the score here. Quick, scruffy and completely at ease, he takes on Jack's let-it-ride charms and foibles as if he were tossing a Frisbee with friends, and it's impossible to watch him without wanting in on the game. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Like the frosty tropical drinks the people keep sipping here, it's refreshing and icy-cool, a sinful pleasure mixed by experts. - 63
ReelViews
There's some entertainment value, but the production as a whole is unfocused. - 60
The A.V. Club
When the general pleasantness of the atmosphere and the cleverness of the screenplay don't carry the movie, Wilson does -- at least until a hurried, confounding finale that reveals its casualness as sloppiness. - 50
Dallas Observer
The low-wattage thrills, lukewarm jokes and unconvincing caricatures we encounter in The Big Bounce simply don't generate that kind of excitement. - 50
New York Daily News
A sexy crime story. The double-crossing complications don't make much sense, but it's fun to watch Wilson turn the hard-boiled dialogue into a series of ironic one-liners under the hot Oahu sun. - 50
New York Post
That The Big Bounce works at all is a testament to Wilson, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter ("The Royal Tenenbaums") who probably could have come up with something better in his sleep.
