Crash

NC-17

3/20/19971h 40m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Shocking. Powerful. Scandalous. Provocative. Erotic. Brilliant. ~

Overview:

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Director:

David Cronenberg

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$9,000,000.00

Revenue:

$2,671,855.00

Key words:

dying and death
adultery
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
sexual obsession
pain
sadism
sexuality
obsession
fetish
eroticism
car journey
fetishism
wound
masochism
deceived husband
cult
hospital
car accident
car wreck
anti-social behaviour
romantic
symphoriphilia

Cast

James Spader

~ as ~

James Ballard

Holly Hunter

~ as ~

Helen Remington

Elias Koteas

~ as ~

Vaughan

Deborah Kara Unger

~ as ~

Catherine Ballard

Rosanna Arquette

~ as ~

Gabrielle

Peter MacNeill

~ as ~

Colin Seagrave

Cheryl Swarts

~ as ~

Vera Seagrave

Yolande Julian

~ as ~

Airport Hooker

Nicky Guadagni

~ as ~

Tattooist

Ronn Sarosiak

~ as ~

A.D.

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Reviews (2)

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talisencrw
Written 9 year(s) ago
9
One thing has to be said in my fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's favour--At least for the first 25-or-so years of his filmmaking career, he has always been one of the most surprising and brilliant minds of 'body-related horror', and from every conceivable angle. What other mind--out of 7 billion possibilities--could have come up with this, the combining of erotic pleasure with car crashing? He sure must have been an interesting catch in his early dating years, for the adventurous women out there...
JPV852
Written 4 year(s) ago
6
I don't have a whole lot of experience with David Cronenberg's films and this is the first of his I've watched in a long time. Pretty obvious with the symbolism he was after but this isn't something I particularly engaged with despite the committed performances from the cast, although Elias Koteas was creepy good. No real plot with this one and by the end, while a unique movie for sure, not really sure I have much desire to watch again (at least anytime soon). 3.0/5