

New Affleck, Paltrow Romantic Drama



by
George Shaw
Bounce is a romantic drama about two strangers, a hot shot urban ad exec and a struggling single mom, who fall in love but only one of them knows it wasn't by chance.
As a partner in LA's hippest advertising agency, Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) makes things happen. Fearlessly confident and wildly charming, his clients love him and thanks to his killer good looks, so does every woman he meets.
Life smiles on Buddy...that is until the night he gets stranded in a major snowstorm at Chicago's O'Hare airport. Buddy learns that the plane he is supposed to get on has crashed, and for the first time in his life the guy with all the answers is at a loss.
Gwyneth Paltrow plays Abby Janello, a young widow and mother in suburban Los Angeles who is terrified to fall in love again.
The Miramax film opens nationwide on Friday, November 17.
About the Film's Stars
Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the most talented and versatile young actresses in Hollywood today. Paltrow starred in Anthony Minghella's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" opposite Damon and Jude Law and recently appeared in "Duets," directed by her father Bruce Paltrow. Her performance in "Shakespeare in Love" opposite Joseph Fiennes garnered an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
Ben Affleck captured an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1998 for his first script, "Good Will Hunting," which he co-wrote with Matt Damon. He segued into big-budget action films with "Armageddon" and was among the ensemble cast of the Academy Award winning "Shakespeare in Love." Affleck will next be seen in the epic "Pearl Harbor," and in 2001 will begin production on "The Sum of All Fears," taking on the role of the Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan.
About Writer/Director Don Roos
Roos began his career as a television writer. His first produced screenplay, "Love Field" was directed by Jonathan Kaplan and earned its star, Michelle Pfeiffer, an Academy Award nomination for her role of a Dallas housewife determined to attend the funeral of John F. Kennedy. Next, Roos adapted a contemporary thriller novel by John Lutz for "Single White Female" directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It quickly became one of the hit psychological thrillers of the decade.
His gift for attracting A-list talent to his projects continued when his script "Boys on the Side" drew stars Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore and director Herbert Ross to what became a critically acclaimed film. Then, in 1996, he wrote the remake of French classic "Diabolique" which attracted a cast that included Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Kathy Bates and Chazz Palminteri. Next, Roos will direct an ensemble comedy based on an idea he hasn't had yet.