The Big Bounce (2004) on Netflix
Jack Ryan, a small-time thief, takes handyman work at Judge Walter Crewes's beach bungalows in Hawaii. Nancy Hayes, the mistress of the millionaire Ray Ritchie, wants his help stealing $200,000.
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Plot summary
Jack Ryan pulls small-time thefts in Hawaii. A fight with Lou Harris, the foreman of a construction site run by the millionaire Ray Ritchie, puts Jack in jail. After his release, Judge Walter Crewes offers him a room and handyman work at his beach-front bungalows. Ritchie's property is in his wife Alison's name, and he is seeing the much younger Nancy Hayes, who takes an interest in Jack. The Judge cautions Jack that Nancy likes the criminal type and is not to be trusted. Nancy proposes stealing $200,000 that Ritchie keeps for bribes.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Big Bounce (2004)
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- On the first day of pre-production, director George Armitage was hit in the eye by a piece of lava rock and caught a virus; an infection two weeks before the end of shooting put him in hospital, shut down production and became an unplanned Christmas break.
- The Big Bounce's original cut was rated NC-17, and producer Steve Bing, advised by money people that a PG-13 gave a better chance of recouping costs, decided to re-edit it instead of the R rating director George Armitage preferred.
- Producer Steve Bing put up his own money for The Big Bounce and, by director George Armitage's estimate, ran up $250,000 in bar bills buying drinks for the crew and cast during the Hawaii shoot.
- George Armitage left The Big Bounce after his second cut; when people ask to see his last movie he shows them his own cut rather than the released version, believing it could have been a far, far better film.
