The Big Bounce
The Big Bounce is a 2004 American comedy heist film starring Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen, Sara Foster and Morgan Freeman. It was directed by George Armitage in his final directing role. It is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. Leonard's novel had previously been adapted for the big screen in a 1969 film of the same name directed by Alex March and starring Ryan O'Neal.
Plot
Jack Ryan, a surfer and small-time thief, has a fight with the intimidating Lou Harris, involving a baseball bat. Harris is a foreman on a Hawaii construction site run by duplicitous millionaire Ray Ritchie. When Jack is released from jail, both the police and Ritchie's business partner, Bob Rogers Jr., tell Jack to leave the island.
More details
| author | Sebastian Gutierrez |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Hawaii |
| director | George Armitage |
| editor | Barry Malkin |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | arrest baseball bat break in business partner cheat construction foreman construction site drive fall foreman handyman imdb jack ryan sail set up surfer trying to escape wound younger woman |
| musicBy | George S. Clinton |
| producer | Channing Dungey Jorge Saralegui Steve Bing |
| productionCompany | Shangri-La Entertainment |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| recordedAt | Hawaii |
| theme | crime comedy heist surf |