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Crash (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Paul Haggis
Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  995 reviews
Sales Rank: 2305
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Korean (Original Language), Persian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D17938D
UPC: 031398179382
EAN: 0031398179382
ASIN: B000A3XY5A
Theatrical Release Date: May 6, 2005
Release Date: September 6, 2005
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| Editorial Reviews:
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 Stills from Crash (click for larger image)
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 Predictable and contrived. January 7, 2009
David T. Bui
The movie is overrated and it tries to hard to be touching. It plays on the theme that there is good and bad in everyone, and everyone is tied to one another by subplots. The stupid part is in LA the characters have extreme personalities and stereotypes. Yes I know they are trying to talk about racism and be heart warming, but it comes across as very contrived.
Example of a dumb scene and epitimizes this movie is the part where the grocery guy uses the gun.
makes "Do the Right Thing" look understated December 30, 2008
W. Doyle (Boston suburbs, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unrealistic story and unrealistic dialogue can work in a more stylized or surreal piece. The suspension of reality still works. But Crash, a seemingly more naturalistic film about the malignant effects of racism, such elements become distracting, and ultimately sabotage the effort. Haggis is high-minded here, but his lack of subtlety is self-defeating, making the film predictable in parts and preposterous in others. Good performances by Matt Dillon and Terrence Howard are wasted in this film that wants us to believe that, in a city of 4.5 million, such unrelated stories would happen to intersect so seemlessly. Only in a Seinfeld episode.
 Crash makes an impact. December 21, 2008
J. Chapman (Arizona)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the most powerful movies in a long time. Crash addresses the racism that still runs rampant in our society with honesty and a little humor. A movie that will provoke discussion and debate among those who see it.
Also, there are some wonderful cameo's by some stars you wouldn't normally see making cameos and playing characters you would never expect them to play.
A must see!
 3.5 stars out of 4 December 21, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Crash is an intriguing and quick-moving drama that suprised just about everyone by winning Best Picture; perhaps a bit overrated, perhaps a bit oversimplified, but without question a well-written, well-acted, and provocative piece of filmmaking.
Keep alert against the creeping poison of prejudice or you, too, may Crash! December 11, 2008
Medusa (Troy, MI)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Apparently, I like others was skeptical about watching the movie Crash, because I had heard that it was a movie about prejudice and how it impacts the lives of those that are the target of prejudice. Certainly the knowledge that prejudice is bad and has a huge impact on its targets should not be new to any of us that consider ourselves human. My suspicions about how viewers perceived this movie was confirmed by a quick scan I did of a number of reviews for Crash published online. I suspect that as with all things human, especially where emotion is involved, there is more to the story than the obvious lesson that prejudice is bad and we should not allow ourselves to be caught in its grasp.
Crash as a movie focuses on a number of events that at first seem unrelated, but are eventually tied together in a neat package. As we watch these events unfold, we see pernicious, insidious prejudice show its ugly face. The white police officers stop the black couple and engage in reprehensible actions, because they feel they are entitled since they are white and policemen. An Iranian immigrant, who is concerned about his security and the security of his family at his store, hires a Hispanic locksmith to fix the lock on his door. The locksmith tells him that he can fix the lock, but that he really needs a new door. The man becomes irritated and tells the locksmith to only fix the door and not the lock, which he does. That night the store owner's store is vandalized in an apparent act of prejudice. When he discovers the vandalism the next day and the fact that the perpetrators broke in through the door he had just fixed. He becomes irate at the man who fixed the lock and sets out to punish him. At this point a miraculous event will turn the events around and reveal some hope, while another shocking event will unexpectedly take place to show how easy and disastrous it is to fall in to the trap of stereotyping and prejudging people. These are few examples of set of events that we see in Crash that get woven together. I could describe others as well, but to do so would be tedious and pointless.
Clearly as so many others have written in their reviews this movie is about prejudice and as we all know prejudice is a bad thing; it corrupts our souls and our humanity. Why then make yet another movie about prejudice? To take that position is, I think, to have fallen squarely into the trap laid by the director of Crash. Those who have formed their own prejudices about the movie based on what they think it is telling us, have missed the fundamental point; that prejudice can creep into us even when we think we are not prejudice. Keep alert against the creeping poison of prejudice or you, too, may Crash!
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