Bounce

Bounce is a 2000 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and directed by Don Roos. 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, who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an activity with his older son. When the flight gets resumed, Buddy thinks he's doin... more

Bounce is a 2000 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and directed by Don Roos. 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, who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an activity with his older son. When the flight gets 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 (Henstridge), he discovers via the television news that Greg's flight crashes. Buddy had conspired with his friend Janice Guerrero (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 very hypocritical, and completely loses it when the... less