loading...
Crash
1996
Set tomorrow or the day after, in a world where sensation has replaced communication, Crash tells the story of James Ballard, a commercial director in the throes of a troubled relationship with his wife, Catherine. One day, Ballard is involved in a car accident that results in the other driver's death. Anxious to come to some .. Read more
| Starring | James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger, Rosanna Arquette |
|---|---|
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Genres | Drama |
loading...
Crash
Set tomorrow or the day after, in a world where sensation has replaced communication, Crash tells the story of James Ballard, a commercial director in the throes of a troubled relationship with his wife, Catherine. One day, Ballard is involved in a car accident that results in the other driver's death. Anxious to come to some understanding with the widow, Helen Remington who, like him, has been injured in the collision, Ballard joins her in an exploration of cars, sex, and death... and the point at which all three meet. Along the way, they encounter Vaughn, a fetishist who recreates and eroticizes famous car crash deaths, and Gabrielle, a woman whose scars and injuries are both disfigurements and decorations. In a world in which people 'love' their cars, Crash is the inevitable manifestation of mankind's endless fascination with things mechanical.
| Starring | James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas, Peter MacNeill |
|---|---|
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2000 Production year: 1996 |
| Format | DVD |
-
Critics' reviews (3)
View all -
How the giving and receiving of love, and the sexual act that usually communicates those primal feelings, will evolve and transform in our increasingly technological world, is at the core of this controversial masterpiece from director David Cronenberg. Based on JG Ballard's cult novel, this uncompromising film is set among a group of urban sophisticates so morally exhausted that they need to invent perversions to keep what sensuality they have left alive. Car accidents become sado-masochistic turn-ons and bodily injury becomes a science-fiction metaphor for how we must reshape our eroded humanity to exist in the hi-tech future. In no way pornographic or exploitative, and containing the most astonishing performance from Deborah Kara Unger, Cronenberg's daring, intellectual wake-up call is potent, adult food for thought and a landmark 1990s fantasy.
-
Arguably the closest commercial Western cinema has come to Oshima's Ai No Corrida - what 'story' there is consists... read more on Time Out
-
Most helpful member's review
View all -
12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Auto-Eroticism
Briefly raising heckles on its release for its controversial depiction of car crashes, this collaboration between writer J. G. Ballard and cult director David Cronenberg surprises by being funnier than its disturbing premise suggests. Bored, promiscuous couple James Ballard (James Spader) and Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) get drawn into an underground cult of car crash fetishists, lead by the charismatic Vaughan (Elias Koteas) and Helen (a weirdly funny Holly Hunter). Soon the group are admiring each others' scars and getting down and dirty in the back seat of old wrecks, while Vaughan orchestrates 'homages' to James Dean and Jayne Mansfield's car crash deaths. There's a darkly funny scene where Spader helps a heavily scarred leather-clad Patricia Arquette discover a few new openings. But like most films about sexual obsession, it's largely tedious and unrewarding viewing, with chilly performances by the unblinking, bug-eyed cast.
-
Most recent members' review
View all -
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
ummmmmmm
first thought ok this is a sky movies porn, shapes up to be quite interesting though. 1 thing though... the sound track nearly made me switch it off!
-
News and features
View all -
More like this
View allShowing 1 to 4 of 20
Related user collection
Dark films about death, life and our eternal pessimism. (50)
90.8% from 55 members
by:
SpacemanBen
from up above, meandering somwhere in Space.