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JUST DESERTS
Owen Wilson as Jack and newcomer Sara Foster as Nancy. “Ultimately,” says Foster, “it’s about the kicks, the craziness, seeing how far she can take things. It’s the big bounce”
the big bounce
IN THE BIG BOUNCE, THE LATEST ELMORE LEONARD ADAPTATION TO HIT THE SCREEN, OWEN WILSON AND
SARA FOSTER PLAY A COUPLE WHO DESERVE ONE ANOTHER - IN EVERY SENSE OF THE TERM. ELEANOR SINGER REPORTS ON A TALE
OF DISHONESTY AND DESIRE SET ON THE SPECTACULAR NORTH SHORE OF OAHU,
BOASTING A CAST THAT ALSO INCLUDES
MORGAN FREEMAN AND GARY SINISE.
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Even with multiple Oscar nominations and the freedom they bring to cherry-pick screen roles, Morgan Freeman didn’t have a moment’s hesitation about this one. “Do you know how many actors in Hollywood want to be in an Elmore Leonard piece?” he asks. “It’s one of those jobs you can’t say no to. Between Leonard’s story and Sebastian’s well-crafted script, an impressive cast and a location in Hawaii… just let me at it, that’s all! Sign me up!”
As a Leonard fan, Freeman probably knew that writer Sebastian Gutierrez - who also wrote the recent Halle Berry movie Gothika - had made one very smart change in adapting Elmore Leonard’s novel, The Big Bounce, for the screen. He’d moved it from the run-down fictional resort of Geneva Beach, located on the Great Lakes some way north of the writer’s home town of Detroit - to the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Not only did this make the October shoot a much more pleasant affair for Freeman’s co-stars, Owen Wilson and Sara Foster, who have to go skinny-dipping, but it also enabled some spectacular background shots of Oahu’s main attraction: the surf.
“We used those beaches throughout the film,” says executive producer Zane Weiner. “Even when we shot interiors, the windows beyond show the pounding surf. You can’t make a movie on the North Shore without showing the North Shore culture, which is all about sand and surf.”
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