Crash [1996 film]
by David Cronenberg (Director and Producer), Ronald Sanders (Editor)
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A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James, and an enigmatic doctor, Helen, brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine, together in a crucible of blood and broken glass, and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons.Tags
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This movie isn't for everyone. Cronenberg cranks up the nihilism to eleven, but he creates a film that is as hard to look away from as it is to watch. The cast is almost uniformly superb: Elias Koteas disturbs and compels as the charismatic Vaughn; James Spader is captivating as the neophyte entering Vaughan's surreal world of car crash fetishism; Holly Hunter is commanding and assured; and Rosanna Arquette imbues her character with an unapologetic sensuality. The only clunker in the cast is Deborah Kara Unger, who is significantly less life-like than a department store mannequin.
Fun fact: J. G. Ballard greatly admired the film, and actually thought it better than his book.
Fun fact: J. G. Ballard greatly admired the film, and actually thought it better than his book.
Yuk. I thought I was getting Paul Haggis' Crash and I ended up with this one. Bad.
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"Crash'' is about characters entranced by a sexual fetish that, in fact, no one has. Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result...It is a strange and insightful film about human sexual compulsion.
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- Crash [1996 film]
- Original publication date
- 1996-12-02
- People/Characters
- James Ballard (James Spader); Helen Remington (Holly Hunter); Vaughan (Elias Koteas); Catherine Ballard (Deborah Kara Unger); Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette)
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- Crash (1996 | IMDb)
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- This is the film adaption of J. G. Ballard's novel, directed by David Cronenberg. Do not combine with the book or the 2004 film Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis.
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