lunes, 24 de junio de 2013

BOUNCE (DON ROOS, 2000)

Advertising executive Buddy (Affleck) has just signed an airline in Chicago as a big client but is later delayed by a snow storm waiting for a flight to Los Angeles on the same airline. He meets Greg Janello (Tony Goldwyn), who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an outing with his son. When the flight resumes boarding, Buddy, trying to do a good deed, gives his ticket to Greg so he can get home to his sons (played by Alex D. Linz and David Dorfman). While spending the night with fellow stranded passenger Mimi (Natasha Henstridge), he discovers via the television news that Greg's flight crashed. Buddy had conspired with his friend Janice Guerrero (Jennifer Grey), the ticket agent that night to put Greg on the flight using his boarding pass. Now he needs his name removed from the passenger list and add Greg's name.
Meanwhile, Greg's wife Abby Janello (Gwyneth Paltrow) is woken up by news of the crash, and is for many hours torn between hope and despair, clinging to the belief that Greg would still arrive on the later flight on which he was originally registered - until his death is confirmed beyond further doubt.
Once back in L.A., Buddy's new client dictates that the company run a series of innocuous ads to ameliorate the tragic consequences of 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 Abby and her two young sons, without revealing his responsibility for her husband's death. Following her to a rental site, Buddy catches her off guard with a hostile dog setting the unit up for a showing. Abby catches him in a fumbled story about just stopping by. The dog, ironically also called "Buddy", gets loose although still chained, and tears into Buddy's clothes. After sending the clothes to be rewoven, the two talk, each maintaining a secret. Abby is divorced, not widowed, and Buddy didn't really know Greg.
Buddy helps Abby with a tip on a commercial office building that Jim the owner has put a bid on. Abby does a masterful job of selling the property. She has no idea where her offer to pay a commission point back at closing.[clarification needed] Buddy's confidence in her ability shines through as does she. Abby treats Buddy to a night at Dodger Stadium and they discuss their journey to this point. Abby tells a humorous story of the birth of her son Scott in a Datsun after she broke Greg's nose climbing into the back seat. She then finishes by driving to the hospital. Buddy tells Abby that she is really brave and she replies that she was just scared. Buddy remarks "It's not brave if you're not scared."
Falling in love, Buddy gets close to the whole family. The airline's settlement with Greg's estate comes through for Abby who next wants to put her boys on a plane to Palm Springs to get over their fear of flying. Abby tells Buddy that he is off the hook and needn't say another word, hinting that she would not expect him to play father to a widow's children. However, there's a short pause and Buddy gets right back into it with a request to go along - and soon develops a strong bond with the two boys. On the return trip Buddy says he has a secret he will reveal the next day.
It all comes apart when Mimi shows up, giving Abby a short video of Greg and Buddy having a drink in the airport bar. Abby is devastated by finding that Buddy lied to her on such a fundamental issue and demands that he leave her home and her life - though also demanding that he say goodbye to the boys. This doesn't sit well with anyone, Buddy comes back the next day and talks to Scott who feels that his father died trying to get home for a Scout Christmas tree outing.
Buddy is called to testify about his fateful night in Chicago, Abby watches on television and Buddy though trying to keep the truth in actually bares his soul. He did give his ticket to Greg, he did not take Greg's in exchange, he did get Greg on the plane with Janice and she later changed the roster to get it right. They all had compromised the airline's security procedures. Buddy remembered that Greg wasn't the good flier he once was, having had "too many people in his wallet". Buddy is excused by the judge, but doesn't feel "excused" for his actions. Abby had harbored the same guilt as Scott, that they had pressured Greg into coming home on the fateful flight.
In being honest and facilitating the damage suit against the airline company, Buddy has strained relations with his own company to the breaking point. He resigns from the firm, and packs his things at work and at home. Abby comes by to tell him that his talk with Scott had helped them both. Buddy, sensing that Abby is about to leave, asks her to help him with renting his beach front home or putting it up for sale, whatever she recommends. She says she isn't going to get it right, but Buddy steadfastly tells her she's the best to handle it. Buddy starts to talk about his plans, Abby listens and they start their relationship over.

Today I saw this film, it isn´t a great film, but  it entertained me.
Anina
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Buddy, un ejecutivo de éxito en una importante agencia de publicidad, se encuentra atrapado en el aeropuerto de Chicago a causa de un temporal. Mientras espera, conoce a Greg, un hombre que va a pasar las Navidades con su familia, y a una atractiva mujer de negocios. Cuando, gracias a sus relaciones, consigue un asiento en el último vuelo de la noche, empieza a dudar entre emprender el viaje o disfrutar de una aventura sexual. Finalmente, elige lo segundo y le ofrece su asiento a Greg. A la mañana siguiente, Buddy oye la noticia de que el avión se ha estrellado. (FILMAFFINITY)
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 Historia de amores encontrados a la sombra de una desgracia. Affleck es un ejecutivo que se enamora de la viuda de un desconocido al que cambió su billete de avión. Este drama romántico cortado al patrón de Hollywood da lo que promete, esto es: tiernos momentos de una (ahora ex) pareja de moda, unas pocas sonrisas y alguna lágrima para toda una apología del amor predestinado. Previsible, almibarada y medianamente entretenida.
Pablo Kurt - fimaffinity
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 "Está lejos de ser una gran película, pero es lo suficientemente agradable como para recordarnos que muy pocas películas en estos tiempos se acercan siquiera a conseguir un equilibrio entre inteligencia y emociones."
Stephen Holden - the new york times-
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Hoy vi esta película mientras esperaba a que salieran las notas de la Escuela de Idiomas, ¡que nervios! jajaja. 
Consiguió por lo menos entretenerme.
Anina  

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