06/17/2026
❤️❤️ 🧻 Interesting fact: In ‘Bounce,’ the restaurant scene where Gwyneth Paltrow’s Abby quietly slips the toilet paper off a passing stranger’s shoe without drawing any attention to herself or expecting any acknowledgment was described by Spirituality & Practice as “one of the many magic moments” in the entire film, with critic Nell Minow of Movie Mom singling it out as the precise scene that tells the audience everything they need to know about who Abby is as a person before a single word about her character is spoken. Director Don Roos wrote the moment specifically as the turning point where Ben Affleck’s Buddy realizes he has found someone extraordinary, making a completely wordless act of quiet kindness do the entire heavy lifting of what most romantic films would use a lengthy dialogue scene to accomplish, with cinematographer Robert Elswit framing Affleck’s reaction in a tight close-up so the audience could watch Buddy fall for her in real time. ‘Bounce’ (2000) is available to rent on Amazon Video and Apple TV. (Source: Spirituality & Practice, Movie Mom, Roger Ebert, Wikipedia) - .