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, Special Edition, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
• 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
• Rating: 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 (1,005 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EHQUOE
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,612 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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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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56 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Crash = Trash, March 13, 2006

By	Johnny Kay (Queens, NY) - See all my reviews

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

The opening scene portends of more to come. The supposedly stereotypical bad female Asian driver says something like, "Its your fault, I no have time to blakey the car". The other female driver then proceeds to insult the Asian diver by mocking her lousy accent, "no, I did blakey in time". They then proceed to whine and complain for the next 5 minutes. A parade of miserable, unlikeable, pessimistic characters will follow. They are all basically the same character with the same speech pattern. They incessantly complain and whine! The DA's wife moans about everything, the racist cop complains about the HMO, the producer's wife complains that he isn't black enough, the producer complains that she complains too much. As these initial characters meet up with other characters, we get hit with a second wave of whining. When the carjacker brings the car to the cop shop, the guy complains that the car has too much blood on it. When the racist cop's partner asks his superior to switch him with a new partner, the superior starts ranting about how hard it it to move up in the department. This movie has the most unrealistic dialogue i have ever heard. Nobody i have ever met speaks like this. Some of the scenes are pretty unrealistic too. For example, the homicide detective interrrupts hot sex so he can have a back and forth whine session with his partner about his lack of maternal respect and her ethnicity. Give me a break! The only thing he should be complaining about is the bad dialogue. I don't know about you, but I want to be entertained when I see a movie. I don't need to listen to this crap. I would rather be at work, I get less complaints there.
I can't fathom how this movie won Best Picture. It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Each character is some warped caricature of some stereotypical image that the screenwriter conjured up. There is no plot. This is a ripoff of Short Cuts except the ways that the different characters are linked together at the end are so contrived that it would be more believable if a giant Alien came out of the ground and claimed all the characters as his lost children. Thank you Paul Haggis for wasting two hours out of my life. Next time you're at a Chinese restaurant, I'll order you some Pork Fly Lice, and then you can rick my ass.

47 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Supremely Over-rated, August 8, 2006

By	E. E. Eklund "old school" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie is watch-able and that's the best I can say for it. What does this tell you: When it was nominated for best picture, I forgot I had even seen it. Only after they played the clip during the Oscar show did I realize I had rented & watched it months before. I guess the positive reviewers are half right: It doesn't present the racial issues "in black & white"- but only in the sense that it doesn't make all the white characters sophisticated and the minority characters blackface caricatures. There are negative reviews here which seem to presume that racism is a relic of the past, which is patently absurd. It is a very real issue, one which affects all of us (usually in more subtle ways than Haggis seems to understand) which is not going anywhere soon. At the same time, every character in the movie seems to have an obsessive racial awareness which controls everything they do. The characters have no depth at all outside of their racial attitude. As a result, the theme is so prevalent that the movie plays like an after-school special. If you want to see a candid and thought-provoking movie about racial relations, check out "American History X" with Ed Norton. The racial discussion takes place in a context that actually makes sense. And if you want to see the movie that SHOULD have been best picture, check out "Good Night and Good Luck." "Walk the Line" and "Brokeback Mountain" were also fantastic films.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I expected much more, May 28, 2006

By	Walter Xing "Walter" (Outside) - See all my reviews

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

I bought this film because of the academy and was engaged upon my first viewing but not blown away. It's well acted, well written and very entertaining, but there is nothing absolutely nothing special about it. I have to say that after seeing it on DVD it does NOT hold up to repeat viewings, because of its simple plot and wooden characters.