Film

Crash 2005

Directed by Paul Haggis

  • Drama
  • 112 min
  • R

Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

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