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Yar, you be here: The Big Bounce > Customer Reviews The Big Bounce Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 6 Reviews)Sexy Mix of Noir and Teen Exploitation. Fairly Hot Stuff!
Ryan O'Neal, in a spectacular bit of miscasting, is a drifter with an explosive temper. He is back from Vietnam, moving from job to job. After getting himself fired from a cucumber plantation, he is taken on as a handyman at a motel. He is fascinated by the plantation owner's "secretary" (Leigh Taylor-Young), and she is just a bad, bad girl. Her quest for kicks lead to greater and greater risk and danger, and O'Neal, smitten, follows along, getting in over his head. This is not one of the more felicitous Elmore Leonard adaptations. In fact, it's one of the worst. O'Neal is hopelessly baby-faced, utterly unconvincing in a role that is itself all too vague. The dialogue is criminal, especially unforgivable as an adaptation of a book by the master of dialogue. Worst of all is the almost complete lack of plot. Though crime does, eventually, occur, it is too little, too late to expunge the memory of the grim, humorless, terminal meandering that makes up most of the running time. And let's hear it for the hilariously gruesome pop songs. Nothing except the theatrical trailer for special features. The movie sounds fine, and looks good. It is also unwatchably dull. Underrated film
For one thing the score by Mike Curb I felt horribly out of place in the film UNTIL the last shot (I won't mention it not to spoil the film) then I "got it". The music is the antithisis of what is happening on screen, and it's meant to be! It's a well made film and there is a hell of a lot more Leonard in this script uncensored than there was in recent Hollywood versions of his novels, Get Shorty for example. PS The scene with Leigh Taylor Young standing nude in the graveyard is one of the most brilliant images I've ever seen in films. Beware of USED Amazon Marketplace Buying!!!
I've tried buying this DVD twice now used from the Amazon Marketplace sellers. Each time they sent the new version with Owen Wilson. Don't expect them to send you the right one, I got refunds instead of the movie I wanted.
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