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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: CRASH (WS) (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0031398179382
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate Films
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 483
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Theatrical Release Date: May 06, 2005
Editorial Review:
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 the will all collide.System Requirements: Running Time 122 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 031398179382 Manufacturer No: 17938
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Most Thought-Provoking Movie
I would rank this movie as one of the very best that I've seen in years. How many movies present BOTH sides of a story in such a manner that it makes you wonder about your own perceptions? It seems to me that people who scored the movie very low are either extremely stubborn and don't want to "walk a mile in some else's shoes", just don't like to think while watching a movie, or living in a fantasy world where there are no problems. The whole point of the movie is that we stereotype cultures other ... Read More
Rating:  - Anti-racism resource
This is a terrific movie that addresses the issue of racism in our country. It has a good cast, including Sandra Bullock and Don Cheadle, two of my favorites. It's not what I'd call a blockbuster oscar-quality flick, but it's a socially relevant movie in ways that those kind of movies often aren't.
This should be a must see for any type of anti-racist training. Although some may say that this movie is too stereotypical, its realism will strike home and give us more than a little food ... Read More
Rating:  - Hated it
I am sorry but I am not into racism. I could not believe that Sandra Bullock even played in it. This movie was so stupid it is unreal. A cop trying to rape a woman in front of her husband, and then he had to tell her the next day or two when she was in a wreck that she needs to trust him. Ryan thinking a black boy was trying to kill him, shot the boy who was trying to show him something that they both have. He was a cop in the show and what he should have done was tell the boy he was a cop when he picked ... Read More
Rating: - What We Perceive
It's a real case of beginner's luck for first-time director Paul Haggis. Having already scored an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Million Dollar Baby), Haggis takes the director's chair for this project and scores a big hit, one which won him Best Picture of 2005. With an all-star cast, a haunting score by Mark Isham and a thought-provoking screenplay, "Crash" is a bold tapestry of humankind at their best and worst and the circumstances that eventually connect them all are a wonder to behold.
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Rating: - So real to life...
This is one of the most realistic movies I have seen in a long time. The whole storyline of the characters all collide over twenty-four hours because of racism & stereotypes.
I had to watch this movie for a final in one of my college classes. I don't consider myself a racist person at all, but after watching this movie I think it is hard to believe you have never had thoughts like some of the characters in the movie.
If you haven't seen this movie, see it!!! It will def. give ... Read More
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