Crash

    Crash
    1996

    Synopsis

    After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

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    Cast

    • James SpaderJames Ballard
    • Holly HunterHelen Remington
    • Elias KoteasVaughan
    • Deborah Kara UngerCatherine Ballard
    • Rosanna ArquetteGabrielle
    • Peter MacNeillColin Seagrave
    • Cheryl SwartsVera Seagrave
    • Yolande JulianAirport Hooker
    • Nicky GuadagniTattooist
    • Ronn SarosiakA.D.

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      Compared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      I'm not quite sure what David Cronenberg is trying to say in Crash, but whatever it is, he deserves a lot of credit for having the nerve to put it on screen and face the consequences.
    • 70

      Salon

      The astonishing thing, however, is how pleasantly hypnotic the film is -- despite the fact that its subject is confined to peculiarly gruesome sex.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      The Crash characters sleepwalk through this story in a state of futuristic numbness, seeking extreme forms of sensation because familiar feelings have long since failed them. It's a chilling, ghastly possibility that manages to exert a grim fascination.
    • 60

      Slate

      For a filmmaker who in Videodrome and Dead Ringers so elegantly broached the unspeakable, Cronenberg has here made a picture that is all surface.
    • 50

      ReelViews

      Crash has a couple of concepts which are, admittedly, fascinating and original, but not a whole lot more.
    • 50

      San Francisco Examiner

      Cronenberg has said that he made the film to find out why he was making it. You may watch it for the same reason.

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