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THE BIG BOUNCE

Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Sara Foster, Vinnie Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Harry Dean Stanton

Director: George Armitage
Writer: Sebastian Gutierrez and George Armitage, Elmore Leonard
Produced by: Jorge Saralegui, George Armitage, Steve Bing
Brent Armitage, Zane Weiner
Distributed by:

US: 01/30/04
UK: 30/04/04

Sexy Noir Thriller. Set on Hawaii's stunning North Shore, a charismatic drifter (Owen Wilson) forms a dubious alliance with a powerful local businessman (Morgan Freeman) while hooking up with a criminally-minded seductress (Sara Foster) to double-cross a wealthy developer (Gary Sinise) and his cohorts (Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones)

This would have felt so right. If only it had been Luke rather than his extremely annoying fey brother Owen. What started out as quite winning, in stuff like Shanghai Noon, is starting to wear very thin. Maybe he'll get a bouncy new shtick to try out. Because try as I can, Owen is about 2 light years the wrong side of "charismatic" in my book.