Crash

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.

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.

Reviews

talisencrw

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 po...

JPV852

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 w...

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