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Crash , 2004
English, Persian, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean
USA, Germany
Plot
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: | 6 May 2005 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Christine Thayer
as Officer John Ryan
as Det. Graham Waters
as Daniel
as Jean Cabot
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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.
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- by: David Denby
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.
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- by: Michael Wilmington
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- 12.October.2009
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- by: Dan
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Perhaps I went in with too high of expectations but I found this movie quite disappointing. For being a movie about racism it didnt stop and make me think or really touch me. Dont get me wrong, its a good movie, its just not a great movie. For a...
- 12.October.2009
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- by: Brandon
- Brandon rated this movie
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