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Crash - The Director's Cut

Crash - The Director's Cut
MPAA Rating
R
Theatrical Release Date
May 05, 2005
Genre(s)
  • Class Differences
  • Urban Life
  • Social Injustice
  • Race Relations
  • Ensemble Films
  • Crumbling Marriages
  • DTS
  • Special Editions
  • DVD
  • Widescreen
  • US & CA DVDs: Region 1
Rating (Stars)
0 Star 1 Star 2 Star Half Star
Description
Movie studios, by and large, avoid controversial subjects like race the way you might avoid a hive of angry bees. So it's remarkable that Crash even got made; that it's a rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents--black, white, latino, Asian, and Persian--is downright amazing. A politically nervous district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his high-strung wife (Sandra Bullock, biting into a welcome change of pace from Miss Congeniality) get car-jacked by an oddly sociological pair of young black men (Larenz Tate and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges); a rich black T.V. director (Terrence Howard) and his wife (Thandie Newton) get pulled over by a white racist cop (Matt Dillon) and his reluctant partner (Ryan Phillipe); a detective (Don Cheadle) and his Latina partner and lover (Jennifer Esposito) investigate a white cop who shot a black cop--these are only three of the interlocking stories that reach up and down class lines. Writer//director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby) spins every character in unpredictable directions, refusing to let anyone sink into a stereotype. The cast--ranging from the famous names above to lesser-known but just as capable actors like Michael Pena (Buffalo Soldiers) and Loretta Devine (Woman Thou Art Loosed)--meets the strong script head-on, delivering galvanizing performances in short vignettes, brief glimpses that build with gut-wrenching force. This sort of multi-character mosaic is hard to pull off; Crash rivals such classics as Nashville and Short Cuts. A knockout. --Bret FetzerStills from Crash (click for larger image)/
Director
Paul Haggis
Stars
  • Karina Arroyave
  • Dato Bakhtadze
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Don Cheadle
  • Art Chudabala
Running Time
115 minutes
Original Price
$14.98
Current Value
$3.95
DVD Features
  • Closed-captioned
  • Color
  • Director's Cut
  • Dolby
  • DTS Surround Sound
  • DVD-Video
  • Subtitled
  • Widescreen
  • NTSC
  • 2.35:1