Post Production Armitage says the film encountered troubles in post production when Steve Bing suffered a crisis of conscience: He was getting advice from people who're in the money business, and he felt that to have a chance to get his money back, he should go PG-13. It was very difficult for some people to understand that when you take away the reality of these people, the way they speak, what they do—these are important elements of the movie that make it work. Whether they would've made it a financial success I don't know, but they make the movie work, and if the movie works, you have more of a chance of more people seeing it.... The first time we showed the film, it came in at an NC-17 instead of an R. And it was unreleasable in that form. So I said: "We'll make it an R". Grosse Pointe Blank was an R, we made it for $7 million and it probably made $45 million lifetime, all in. But they said: "You can't make an R-rated comedy, they don't make money". That's what they were saying in 2004. Since then, of course, a lot of R-rated comedies have done beautifully. So I said: “Look, I'm not going to oversee the destruction of my own movie, there's no way. If you go to a PG-13, you're going to eliminate Elmore Leonard from this movie". The language, there's some incredible love scenes… But the decision was made—they felt that they had to do that, so I said: "Goodbye". I left the picture after my second cut. We'd already had two very, very good previews: in the 80s, up to the 90s. I don't think I've even looked at the release print. A lot of the cuts were language and nudity. Owen and Sarah were good sports, very generous with themselves. But when people ask to see my last movie, I show them my cut of The Big Bounce, I don't show them what's out there. It isn't absolutely complete, but I think it could have been a far, far better film. Reception On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 16% based on 135 reviews, with an average score of 4.20/10. The site's consensus states: "Lazily crafted and light on substance, The Big Bounce takes few chances and strands its promising cast in a subpar adaptation that fails to