Crash **** (2004, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1749

Co-writer/director Paul Haggis’s serious-minded, low-budget, triple Oscar-winning 2004 movie about race, ethnicity and religion got great reviews and kicked up a storm at the box office. On a $6,500,000 cost, it took $55million in US cinemas.

Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard and Chris Ludacris Bridges star as Los Angeles dwellers with vastly differing lives who collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption unfolding over a dramatic 36-hour period.

It also co-stars Bruce Kirby, Michael Peña, Yomi Perry, Ashlyn Scachez, Ken Garito, Nona Gaye, Loretta Devine, Tony Danza, Keith David and Wiliam Fichtner.

It won three Oscars, for Best Motion Picture of the Year, for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Haggis and Robert Moresco) and Best Film Editing (Hughes Winborne), while Haggis was nominated as Best Director, In the Deep was nominated as Best Original Song and Dillon’s scalding performance as a racist cop was acknowledged with a Best Supporting Performance nomination.

© Derek Winnert 2014 Classic Movie Review 1749

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