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| Release Date: |
May 6, 2005 |
| On DVD: |
September 6, 2005 |
| Genre: |
Suspense, Drama, Crime |
| Running Time: |
100 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, sexual content and some violence. |
| Director: |
Paul Haggis |
| Writer: |
Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco |
| Cast: |
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard, Chris Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, Nona Gaye |
A Brentwood housewife and her DA husband. A Persian store owner. Two police detectives who are also lovers. A black television director and his wife. A Mexican locksmith. Two car-jackers. A rookie cop. A middle-aged Korean couple... They all live in Los Angeles. And in the next 36 hours, they will all collide... Challenging and thought-provoking, Lions Gate Films' CRASH takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. Diving headlong Read more
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Movie Review
Grade: A-
Is Paul Haggis coming into his own or what? Having written and directed some television shows and a few never-known movies over the years, his last two projects have been in a league of their own. Not only did he write last year's masterpiece "Million Dollar Baby," but "Crash," his racially-charged drama that is the only shining light so far this summer season, is a piece of art itself. Read the full movie review
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User Comments & Reviews
Crash reviews - PC or just being blind??, by Sia
August 30, 2005
It seems to me that all reviewers are gripped by the sense of political correctness when commenting on Crash and nobody dares saying a bad word about it. In fact, this is the worst movie I've seen in the last couple of years, if not longer. It is full of stereotypes, melodrama and sickly-sweet- sentimental notions. The director has been so convinced in his own brilliance that he obviously didn't want his movie to end; hence, we have to endure one after the other teary cliches until we finally get to the end drowned by the sound of appropriately heart-breaking music.
Acting is unconvincing, the story has no real direction and the ideas are presented in a very chewed-and-digested version for the viewer to swallow. I suggest we stick to watching Spike Lee movies.
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