Film time director Adam Watstein debuts with this urban drama about two rappers trying to keep their lives together while pursuing a recording contract. Lorenzo (Jamal Mackey) is a drug-dealing troublemaker who hails from a welfare family headed by his crack-addicted mother. His rapping partner is the more focused Walter (Walter Velasquez, who also wrote the autobiographical script), who attends college, teaches gym to youngsters, and tends to Narine (Pamela Johnson), his pregnant girlfriend and Lorenzo's sister. In spite of a real chance at getting a record contract, Lorenzo winds up in jail, and Walter tries to further his career by himself. When Lorenzo gets released from jail, he promises to stay clean, though he soon discovers that he is on a collision course with doom. Bounce was screened at the 1999 Chicago Film Festival.