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Crash, 2004

Crash

English, Persian, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean

USA, Germany

Rating:8.0
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Profile of Crash

The mood of Crash is disturbing, tense, and contemplative. The plot centers around social decay, immigrants, and city life. It is a drama and independent movie. Stylistically, Crash features an all-star cast, involves multiple stories, and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Crash is set in Los Angeles. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being an Oscar winner and critically acclaimed. Note that Crash includes mild violent content and profanity.

Summary of Crash

A stellar cast collides haphazardly in this insightfully written roundelay of racism, rage, and redemption which takes place over the course of one day in LA and involves a circus of cops, robbers, and civilians. A detective (Don Cheadle) with a heroin addict mother and criminal brother investigates the shooting of a black cop by a white one. Two hoodlums (Larenz Tate and Ludacris) jack the car of the District Attorney (Brendon Fraser) and his angry, racist wife (Sandra Bullock). Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton play an upper-class African American couple harassed by a racist cop (Matt Dillon). And the chaos continues, with other roles played by Tony Danza, Michael Pena, and Jennifer Esposito. A propulsive Mark Isham score keeps the disparate narrative threads electrified from the get-go; when they finally connect, the results are explosive and beautiful. Everything is tied together with tight editing and artistic shots of car headlights cutting through dense morning smog. Writer-director Paul Haggis' (writer of MILLION DOLLAR BABY) Los Angeles is a world of alienated people struggling to connect across vast barriers of language, class, and culture; that they manage to do so is testament to their depth as characters more than some trite message of brotherly love. There are no easy answers, but this film is tough, intelligent, and gutsy enough to find some anyway; and for that it's a winner.

Details

Language: English, Persian, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean
Country: USA, Germany
Release date: 21 April 2005
Runtime: 112 min
Awards: Academy Awards

Awards

Paul Haggis for Best Film at the 2005 Academy Awards
Paul Haggis for Best Original Screenplay at the 2005 Academy Awards
Robert Moresco for Best Original Screenplay at the 2005 Academy Awards

Cast and Crew

Thandie Newton as Christine Thayer in Crash
Thandie Newton

as Christine Thayer

Matt Dillon as Officer John Ryan in Crash
Matt Dillon

as Officer John Ryan

Don Cheadle as Det. Graham Waters in Crash
Don Cheadle

as Det. Graham Waters

Michael Pena as Daniel in Crash
Michael Pena

as Daniel

Sandra Bullock as Jean Cabot in Crash
Sandra Bullock

as Jean Cabot

Photos

Ryan Phillipe in Crash (2004)
Ryan Phillipe in Crash (2004)
Terrence Dashon Howard in Crash (2004)
Terrence Dashon Howard in Crash (2004)
Thandie Newton in Crash (2004)
Thandie Newton in Crash (2004)
Michael Pena in Crash (2004)
Michael Pena in Crash (2004)
Matt Dillon in Crash (2004)
Matt Dillon in Crash (2004)
Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon in Crash (2004)
Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon in Crash (2004)

Clips

Crash
Crash: Theatrical

Critics Reviews

The New Yorker
Hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River," though it is not for the fainthearted.
Chicago Tribune
Like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," it is an all-star fresco, but the stars--none of whom carries the movie--get to play the kind of morally ambivalent, sometimes unlikable parts that big-name actors usually avoid.

Users Reviews

Crash
The film deals mainly with racism between common people in America. Several plotlines demonstrate various aspects of the issue and also provide different points of view. Regular people are involved in crime, criminals are involved with the police,...
So this movie ended up on my queue because of the hype, but I didn't read the synopsis. A friend of mine told me that it was a movie about car crash fetishes although he was confusing it with the 1996 movie of the same name so that's what I was...
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