Crash

3.00
    Crash
    2005

    Synopsis

    In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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    Cast

    • Sandra BullockJean Cabot
    • Don CheadleDet. Graham Waters
    • Matt DillonOfficer John Ryan
    • Michael PeñaDaniel
    • Jennifer EspositoRia
    • Brendan FraserRick Cabot
    • Nona GayeKaren
    • Terrence HowardCameron Thayer
    • LudacrisAnthony
    • Thandiwe NewtonChristine Thayer

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      It's the most compelling American movie to come around in a long, long time.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Haggis writes with such directness and such a good ear for everyday speech that the characters seem real and plausible after only a few words. His cast is uniformly strong; the actors sidestep cliches and make their characters particular.
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      The stunning, must-see drama Crash is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society.
    • 90

      Dallas Observer

      What makes Crash so gripping--so terrifying in spots, so moving in others, and even a little funny at times--is how nothing happens as we think it will.
    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      Like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts," it is an all-star fresco, but the stars--none of whom carries the movie--get to play the kind of morally ambivalent, sometimes unlikable parts that big-name actors usually avoid.
    • 80

      Empire

      A haunting, perceptive and uncompromising examination of controversial subject matter, expertly written and directed by Paul Haggis and characterised by excellent performances from its starry cast.
    • 63

      Boston Globe

      Its characters come straight from the assembly line of screenwriting archetypes, and too often they act in ways that archetypes, rather than human beings, do. You can feel its creator shuttling them here and there on the grid of greater LA, pausing portentously between each move.
    • 50

      Baltimore Sun

      New York critics have anointed Crash in advance as the Second Coming, but it's just another over-ambitious first movie.

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