Crash (I) (2004) Full Cast & Crew. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.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.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.© 2020 All products featured were editorially selected.
On their way to a chop shop, Peter and Anthony run over a “Chinaman,” whose blood on the car prevents them from unloading it. Directed by Paul Haggis. The film had a budget of $6.5 million (plus $1 million in financing). Not only that, but she blurts out insulting racial epithets in the presence of her Hispanic maid.With a priority call out to look for the stolen SUV, two white cops, Ryan (Matt Dillon) and Hanson (Ryan Phillippe), pull over just such a car, one occupied by an upscale black couple, TV director Cameron (Terrence Howard) and his wife Christine (Thandie Newton). CRASH is a cinematic fantasia on the duality of man - exploring with astonishing candor how we are divided and tormented by race. A determinedly dire -- but neatly packaged -- ensembler on the state of race relations, "Crash" represents the modern condition as a violent bumper car ride. ... 2004. AllMovie relies heavily on JavaScript. Working in a format that recalls innumerable television shows as well as bigscreen mosaics such as “Short Cuts,” Haggis, with co-writer Bobby Moresco, clearly set out to take a serious and probing look at the Los Angeles melting pot, its ever-evolving rainbow nature and the simmering prejudices of its inhabitants.
Discover the world’s greatest film festivals and awards on MUBI Because of the financial constraints, director Haggis filmed in his own house, borrowed a set from the TV show Monk, used his car in parts of the film, and even used cars from other staff members. Detective Graham Walters (Don Cheadle), who’s looking for his missing brother, has to grapple with a fresh crime scene in which a white cop has evidently shot a black undercover cop in self-defense. R 112 min - Drama - 10 September 2004 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.
Actors come across as grim and somewhat suggestive that they’re up to something more important than the Hollywood norm.Largely undifferentiated Los Angeles locations have been given the gritty treatment by lenser J. Michael Muro, and Mark Isham’s techno/vocal score mixes moodiness and a veneer of pretension in equal measure. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. The nominees for the 78th Academy Awards were announced on January 31, 2006, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, and actress Mira Sorvino.
Christine later castigates her husband for doing nothing, even though he was powerless under the circumstances.Threads are further played out, with offshoots springing up. Awards & Festivals. With Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave. Ryan, for his part, is the first cop on the scene of an awful highway accident from which the pinned Christine, the woman he’s manhandled the night before, urgently needs to be rescued.
2006 | Winner: Best Motion Picture of the Year. © 2008-2020 The Awards Circuit, LLC.
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis on AllMovie - Issues of race and gender cause a group of… Despite its success in relation to its cost, Crash was the lowest-gross… In a very nasty, racially motivated way, Ryan puts his hand all the way up Christine’s dress, abusing her while verbally humiliating Cameron, all to the horror of his partner. AwardsCircuit.com may receive a percentage of sales for items purchased from these links. 7 Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Contact us: info@awardscircuit.comHere you'll find all collections you've created before. In his earnest attempt to speak plainly about how racial stereotypes and ingrained prejudices play an often insidious part in everyone’s daily lives, Haggis protests too much, and in the process contracts the scope of his film.Yarn begins unspooling during the Christmas season at the scene of a nasty automobile accident in the Hollywood Hills, and proceeds down to Westwood, where two young black men, Peter (Larenz Tate) and Anthony (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), carjack a Lincoln Navigator that happens to belong to District Attorney Rick Cabot (Brendan Fraser) and his wife Jean (Sandra Bullock).An uptight, ill-tempered woman, Jean carps at her husband and denigrates, so that he can hear it, the locksmith, Daniel (Michael Pena), whom she perceives to be a Hispanic gang type; she insists they’ll just have to get the locks changed on their home all over again. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC.
2006 | Nominee: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. A reasonably realistic and varied array of actions and responses is rejected in favor of an anxiety-provoking slate of negative motives that fulfill the drama’s sociological program, creating a blindered view of humanity in a film that could have been employed to examine a more diverse cross-section of attitudes.Pic may become tiresome due to its insistent hitting of the same notes, but it never bores. The film grossed $53.4 million domestically, making back more than seven times its budget.
A determinedly dire -- but neatly packaged -- ensembler on the state of race relations, "Crash" represents the modern condition as a violent bumper car ride. Find movie and film award information for Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis on AllMovie