Ultimately, Crash succeeds in spite of itself. Its color war starts to feel obvious and schematic. Its coincidences and cliches become like a pileup on the 405 freeway, but there it is -- you find yourself rubbernecking and can't manage to look away.
Crash
Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.
2005 · 1h 52m · R
Drama
Directed by
Paul Haggis
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Paul Haggis Director
- Don Cheadle as Det. Graham Waters
- Sandra Bullock as Jean Cabot
- Brendan Fraser as Rick Cabot
- Matt Dillon as Officer John Ryan
- Michael Peña as Daniel
- Jennifer Esposito as Ria
- Terrence Howard as Cameron Thayer
- Thandiwe Newton as Christine Thayer
- Ludacris as Anthony
- Larenz Tate Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Haggis moves seamlessly between all these stories and has structured them in such a way that his characters reach a crisis point simultaneously, followed by melancholy clarity.
It's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit.
Any relation to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Enjoy the wonderful performances by a cast very committed to the cause.
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