Product Details

• Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
• Directors: Paul Haggis
• Writers: Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
• Producers: Andrew Reimer, Betsy Danbury, Bob Yari, Cathy Schulman, Dana Maksimovich
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate Films
• DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,022 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A3XY5A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,668 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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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

They all live in Los Angeles. And in the next 36 hours, they will collide.

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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I tried to like this movie, March 14, 2006

By	rhodeymark (Newport, RI United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)

It was recommended to me and I don't like to question the taste or intelligence of friends, but I honestly could not finish it. I saw characters doing things that rang so false that I wondered what the heck Haggis was thinking. Then I remembered his Million Dollar Baby work and it made more sense. He doesn't go for reality - he goes for the message, and twists reality in service of that. It was especially ironic that the carjacker was played by a rapper named "ludacris". It's an apt description for much of the behavior in this contrived setup. As far as Best Picture Oscars go, Crash might even be a poorer choice than American Beauty.

23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collision of beauty, July 16, 2005

By	Dogville (Sunny Island) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)

I just had a delectable visual and mental treat from Paul Haggis. Crash, is a well-crafted story. From the opening scene of a car collison, the film unfolds to weave several stories to form an intricate web of inter-related events involving the beautifully drawn characters. The basis of the story might have been racial discrimination and stereotyping but beneath this surface, it's really an emotionally-charged collision of unearthed feelings, contradictive thoughts and the emotional freedom that people sometimes deny themselves by refusing to confront reality. Several of the heart wrenching scenes are so beautifully shot that the viewer is almost transposed into the movie itself.

Although most of the actors have minimal screen time due to the various stories, the acting is consummate. Don Cheadle is shaping to be a great character actor as his display of emotions is so intense that you feel him. Ludacris, the rapper (whose music I couldn't care less), also shows promise in his big screen debut.

For me, I identify most with Sandra Bullock's character, a heavily repressed and unhappy socialite who was robbed at gunpoint with her husband (Brendan Fraser). When her character said, "I am upset but it's not because of the carjack. I wake up feeling like this every morning. I am angry but I don't know why." And she falls off the stairs shortly after, only to arrive at the realization of the people and things that matter most.
I am deeply surprised by how well the little stories intertwine so flawlessly to present a thought-provoking film. Certainly one of my three favorite movies of 2005 following Closer and Sommersturm (Summer Storm).

I urge everyone to see Paul Haggis' Crash and experience 2 hours of feeling again. Oh ya, listen to the mesmerising music score that accompanies the film! (A)

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars my two cents, June 3, 2006

By	C. Link (Boston, CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Crash (Full Screen Edition) (DVD)

Just had one short comment about the film:
As a woman, I disliked how the movie dealt with the sexual assault of the African-American woman by the racist police officer. I thought the movie took that way too lightly. The officer was portrayed as a savior later in the film and was never held accountable for what he did, which disturbed me. Just my opinion.