| | Crash DVD (2 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Crime Movies, Mexican Videos, Los Angeles, California, Police, Racism | | Starring | Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, Michael Pena, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Shaun Toub, Jennifer Esposito | | Director | Paul Haggis | | Composer | Mark Isham | | Costume Designer | Linda M. Bass | | Director of Photography | James Muro | | Editor | Hughes Winborne | | Producer | Don Cheadle, Bob Yari, Cathy Schulman | | Production Designer | Laurence Bennett | | Screenwriter | Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco |
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate, and Michael Pena star in this Paul Haggis film. DVD 1 includes the director's cut, director's intro, commentary, trailers, and more. DVD 2 includes deleted scenes with or without director commentary, featurettes, music video by Bird York, music montages, script-to-screen comparisons, and storyboard-to-screen comparisons. A stellar cast collides haphazardly in this insightfully written roundelay of racism, rage, and redemption which takes place over the course of one day in LA and involves a circus of cops, robbers, and civilians. A detective (Don Cheadle) with a heroin addict mother and criminal brother investigates the shooting of a black cop by a white one. Two hoodlums (Larenz Tate and Ludacris) jack the car of the District Attorney (Brendon Fraser) and his angry, racist wife (Sandra Bullock). Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton play an upper-class African American couple harassed by a racist cop (Matt Dillon). And the chaos continues, with other roles played by Tony Danza, Michael Pena, and Jennifer Esposito. A propulsive Mark Isham score keeps the disparate narrative threads electrified from the get-go; when they finally connect, the results are explosive and beautiful. Everything is tied together with tight editing and artistic shots of car headlights cutting through dense morning smog. Writer-director Paul Haggis' (writer of MILLION DOLLAR BABY) Los Angeles is a world of alienated people struggling to connect across vast barriers of language, class, and culture; that they manage to do so is testament to their depth as characters more than some trite message of brotherly love. There are no easy answers, but this film is tough, intelligent, and gutsy enough to find some anyway; and for that it's a winner. Crash Reviews: "Mr. Haggis's evident sincerity and intelligence are reflected in the conviction of the cast..."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times "The acting is dynamite, notably by Dillon and Newton....The film is a knockout."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "The stunning, must-see drama CRASH is proof that words have not lost the ability to shock in our anesthetized society."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "The dialogue and scenarios are sometimes inspired....[With] intricate construction and intelligent, if melancholy, exploration of race and class warfare."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "As the interweaving plotlines throw unsympathetic characters together...the script makes many brave, original points about cultural clichés."
-- Chris Roberts, Uncut Ranked #15 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "Haggis tackles this thorny subject matter with courage, wit and insight, unafraid to ask the tough questions."
-- Uncut Staff, Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "Paul Haggis has found an inspired metaphor with which to explore a modern-day L.A. snarl of race, class, and culture."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly Ranked #11 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he rage sticks, as do the emotions underlying it."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "A superb interlinking ensemble drama..."-- Natalie Braine, Ultimate DVD Crash | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.83) | | Studio | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  9437  | | CD Universe Part number | 7042139 | | Catalog number | 21599 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Apr 04, 2006 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | language, sexual content, and some violence | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Director's Cut; Special Edition; Subtitled; DTS Sound | | Movie Details | Color; Director's Cut; Widescreen; Special Edition; Subtitled; DTS Sound; 2-Disc Director's Cut |
Crash DVD Region 1
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Surround EX - English
DTS-ES 6.1 - English
Closed Captions - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional
DISC 1:
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries -
1. Paul Haggis - Director/Writer, Don Cheadle, Bobby Moresco - Stars
2. Paul Haggis - Director/Writer
DISC 2:
Deleted Scenes - Commentary - optional
Making Of
Featurette -
1. L.A.-- The Other Main Character
2. Unspoken
Music Video - In the Deep - Bird York
Music Montage
Trailers
Text/Photo Galleries:
Script-to-Screen Comparison
Storyboard-to-Screen Comparison
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