Crash
Director: Paul Haggis
Genre: Crime Fiction, Indie, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: United States of America, Germany
Language: Spanish Language, Persian Language, English Language, Korean Language, Standard Mandarin
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Tony Danza, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze, Art Chudabala, Ime N. Etuk, Eddie J. Fernandez, Billy Gallo, Thandie Newton, Terrence Howard, Marina Sirtis, Larenz Tate, Daniel Dae Kim
Crash is a 2004 American drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard in 1991. It won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing in 2005 at the 78th Academy Awards.
Several characters' stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles; a black LAPD detective estranged from his mother, his criminal younger brother and gang associate, the white District Attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white police officer who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, an African American Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the officer, a Persian-immigrant father who is wary of others, and a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter.
Los Angeles detectives Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) and his partner Ria (Jennifer Esposito) approach a crime scene investigation (CSI). Ria and Kim Lee, an Asian woman in another car, get into an argument about right-of-way and soon are exchanging racial
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