Product Details

• Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
• Directors: Paul Haggis
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS ES 6.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate Films
• DVD Release Date: April 4, 2006
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,032 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHQUOE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,538 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Crash - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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 Fetzer

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Product Description

This compelling urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast of characters struggling to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. In the gray area between black and white, victim and aggressor, during the next 36 hours, they will all collide.

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31 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crash, September 7, 2005

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Emily R. Jarrell "emma34" (Newport News, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crash (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

This is the truest movie out there on racism, and the preconceived notions we ALL (no matter what color) try not to admit to to a certain extent. This was not a "lets bash the white man" movie either, the racism was across the board. The biggest surprise was to come about an hour in, and I was stunned to see the revelation of that storyline (with Matt Dillon). This film requires paying attention to, please stay with it, it will pay off. High recommend!

30 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There was a good idea in there somewhere., March 30, 2006

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Jenn Jenn (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crash (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

However the script is such an amateurish mess that the film fails miserably. The performances are wonderful, especially for such a parade of B-listers but with that screenplay it is all for not.

There is never a moment of truth in this entire film. It disappoints me so much I had to give it one star. It could have been so great and so important if a competent filmmaker had been involved.

53 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars CRASH is TRASH...the final nail in the coffin of the Oscar's integrity, March 14, 2006

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Boston Dude - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crash (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

Crash is a terrible overplayed afterschool special. The worst part of it is that a few older actors admitted they didn't want to see Brokeback Mountain , so it appears they voted for this by default. (frankly, those actors shouldn't be voting if they haven't seen the movies and should be kicked out of the academy).
It doesn't really matter anyway, the oscars have lost all integrity. The Crash team basically paid for their 'best picture' award. (The distributor even admitted that the few million they spent sending 130,000 dvds to academy members would pay off in about $10 million in additional revenue for Crash if they could get it to win 'best picture').
If you want an idea of what movies to watch based on awards from organizations with members who are movie fanatics and actually watch the movies that they vote for, then I would say check out the GOLDEN GLOBES, the INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS and the BAFTA (basically the British top movie awards). Interesting how ALL these groups gave the best picture of 2005 award to Brokeback Mountain. Remember, the Oscars are about business and making more money , not honoring the movie and movie fans.