Crash (Blu-ray) Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton *New*

Crash (Blu-ray) Cheadle, Dillon, Newton, Bullock *New*

*** Region Free ***

2005 Academy Award Winner

Brand New and Sealed

Actors:          Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave

Directors:     Paul Haggis

Format:         Blu-ray, Colour, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language:    English

Subtitles:      English, Spanish

Region:         Free

Aspect:          2.35:1

Discs:            1

Origin:           USA

Rating:          R (Restricted)

Studio:          Lions Gate

Run Time:    112 minutes

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


Lionsgate Crash (Blu-Ray) (Widescreen) This compelling urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection ofa 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, they will all collide.

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