Where to watch Crash (2004)
Crash is available to stream in US on fuboTV, Fandango at Home Free, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, The CW and Hoopla. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
Over roughly two days in Los Angeles, the lives of people from different racial, cultural, and social backgrounds collide through a series of tense encounters. Their connected experiences examine prejudice, stereotyping, fear, abuse of power, guilt, compassion, and the possibility of change.
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Peña, Terrence Howard, Thandiwe Newton, Ludacris, Larenz Tate, Ryan Phillippe, Shaun Toub
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Trivia & production notes
- Paul Haggis was carjacked at a Blockbuster Video on Wilshire Boulevard in February 1991 while driving home from The Silence of the Lambs premiere, an experience that directly inspired him to write Crash.
- Haggis intended Crash to challenge liberals' belief that America had achieved a post-racial society, not simply to criticize racists.
- Haggis and Robert Moresco wrote the first draft of Crash in 2001 shortly after Haggis was fired from the TV series Family Law.
- Producer Bob Yari offered Haggis $7.5 million to make Crash as a film on the condition that he could assemble an ensemble cast of major stars.
- Don Cheadle was the first actor cast and also became a producer, which helped attract other established names to the project.
- Brendan Fraser's casting as the district attorney was the final piece that got the film green-lit.
- Heath Ledger's departure from the cast cost the film roughly $1 million in budget due to reduced international appeal.
- To compensate for budget constraints, Paul Haggis took out three mortgages on his house, the cast accepted pay cuts and deferred salaries, and he minimized exterior shots and reused locations.
- Haggis suffered a heart attack during filming but refused medical advice to replace himself as director, delaying production for a week.
- Mark Isham composed the original score, which was released in two versions: a complete iTunes release with cues in film order and an edited commercial CD release in suite form.
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