James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred car crash fetish victims and tries to use that to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

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NC-17, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Release Date: May 17, 1996

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DVD Release Date: November 17, 1998

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  • November 13, 2009
    David Cronenberg?s ?Crash? isn?t for everybody. The theme of the film is sexually orientated to a particular fetish and really has nothing more to offer than adrenalin infused romps.

    Don?t get me wrong, I?m not prudish when it comes to such films, but from the reviews I?ve pr...( read more)eviously received, I had thought this film was going to be some kind of controversial masterpiece.
  • September 28, 2009
    Controversial and one of Cronenberg?s best
  • May 28, 2009
    If you don't want to bang Deborah Kara Unger after seeing this, it's time to remove your penis. Elias Koteas makes this 10 times weirder.
  • November 2, 2008
    I've read the novel and seen Crash in a theatre. It is a pretty strange movie/play. But I still want to see it again when it comes on TV.
  • October 26, 2008
    Typical Cronemberg thing: a great idea (original and totallly twisted) with somehow disappointing results. Well, all in all, it remains a bad-ass Cronemberg masterpiece :-)
  • November 12, 2009
    You never know until you know.
  • October 24, 2009
    I saw this for the first time recently, and afterwards all I had to say was "OMG. I love that film". Great characters, dialogue, mise en scene and cinematography is what I like most about Crash. Not a lot else matters. 'Sex and wrecks' was a quote on the back of the dvd case... t...( read more)hat sums up the story, but there is so much more to Crash than that. So many wonders and pleasures await the viewer who is willing to look beyond the story!
  • October 14, 2009
    "lt's all very satisfying. l'm not sure l understand why."
  • October 4, 2009
    Not for all tastes. Extremely pretentious and fails in almost every single aspect except maybe for the somewhat smart and paranoic interpretation of human independence towards his most primitive instincts. Among the director's worst films.

    59/100
  • September 29, 2009
    I believe that only Cronenberg could ever assocciate those different themes car crashes and sex. This great inspiration give as a
    dark, moody, erotically film which is exploring the issue of sexual fetishes, and their impact on one's life.
    Through this film I realised who far ...( read more)can reach the mind, to the road for the pleasure. Crash is, one of the strongest I have seen films in years. And realy I wonder why I realy like this movie.
    Because isn't easy for me to watch a film like this... When it was over, I sat in my chair, shell-shocked in stunned silence, trying to sort out my tangled emotions.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It's about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses. full review

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  • IRONMANBLAST
    December 27, 2007
    Yeah well try watching this on Acid knowing absolutely nothing about the movie and peaking in all the right parts.
    OMG That movie is burning in My Head. 8 )

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