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| Crash (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Haggis
Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  995 reviews
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
Running Time: 112 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D17938D
UPC: 031398179382
EAN: 0031398179382
Theatrical Release Date: May 6, 2005
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Predictable and contrived. January 7, 2009
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
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
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
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
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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