Crash - Contatto fisico

Titolo originale: Crash
Regia: Paul Haggis |
Anno: 2005
Origine: United States of America | Germany |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: daughter | police | race politics | installer | fall | car crash | racism | los angeles, california | bigotry | social services | collision | interwoven stories |
Cast: Don Cheadle | Sandra Bullock | Brendan Fraser | Matt Dillon | Jennifer Esposito | Michael Peña | Terrence Howard | Thandiwe Newton | Ludacris | Larenz Tate | Ryan Phillippe | Shaun Toub | Bahar Soomekh | Ashlyn Sanchez | Karina Arroyave | Loretta Devine | Beverly Todd | Keith David | Kathleen York | Eddie J. Fernandez | Nona Gaye | Jack McGee | Marina Sirtis | William Fichtner | Daniel Dae Kim | Dato Bakhtadze | Art Chudabala | Tony Danza | Ime Etuk | Howard Fong | Billy Gallo | Ken Garito | Octavio Gómez Berríos | James Haggis | Sylva Kelegian | Jayden Lund | Amanda Moresco | Martin Norseman | Joe Ordaz | Greg Joung Paik | Yomi Perry | Alexis Rhee | Molly Schaffer | Paul E. Short | Allan Steele | Kate Super | Glenn Taranto | Curt Clendenin | Bruce Kirby | Sean Cory |

Una casalinga di Brentwood e il marito procuratore. Un iraniano proprietario di un 24hours shop. Due detective della polizia, amanti occasionali. Il direttore nero di un canale televisivo e la moglie. Un fabbro latinoamericano. Due ladri di automobili. Una recluta della polizia. Una coppia coreana di mezza età... Vivono tutti a Los Angeles. E nelle prossime 36 ore per loro sarà inevitabile scontrarsi...

Approfondimenti

Paul Haggis was an NBC staff director on Facts of Life for years before he directed this movie. D
Was the last Academy Award-winning film to be released on VHS in a short-print run. D
As of 2022, features Matt Dillon's only Oscar nominated performance. D
Lionsgate bought the distribution rights to the film for $4 million at the 2004 Toronto Internationa [...] D
Thandie Newton and Loretta Divine, who both had roles in this film, went on to star in For Colored G [...] D
Michael Peña, Don Cheadle, Terrence Howard, and Shaun Toub all have appeared in the Marvel Cinema [...] D
The last film to win Best Picture without winning Best Director until CODA (2021). Coincidentally, 2 [...] D
The movie is dedicated to the late director/producer Anita W. Addison, who was the first person to r [...] D
The movie was shot in only thirty-six days. D
Beverly Todd and Don Cheadle also played mother and son on an episode of Hill Street giorno e notte [...] D
The script was written in 2001. D
Included among the "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider. D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Song. D
The production only had six police cars at their disposal, due to the low budget. D
Although originally released in 2004, the film did not qualify for the following year's Academy Awar [...] D
Though Sandra Bullock is well renowned for her role and is given top billing, she has only 5 minutes [...] D
This was the first film brought in a film festival (Toronto) to win Best Picture at the Oscars. D
The Cabot house was actually director Paul Haggis' own house. D
The ethereal female singing that is featured in the original score was written and composed by St. H [...] D
A total of 130,000 screeners were sent out to AMPAS and the various guilds and critics. D
The film cast includes one Oscar winner, Sandra Bullock, and four Oscar nominees: Matt Dillon, Don C [...] D
John Cusack was the original choice for the role of District Attorney Rick Cabot, which eventually w [...] D
Kathleen York, who wrote the Oscar-nominated song "Into the Deep" for this film, made a cameo appear [...] D
In a 2020 interview with Vulture, Thandiwe Newton stated that Paul Haggis asked her to wear 'protect [...] D
The story of Officer John Ryan and his father comes from a piece of hate mail director Paul Haggis r [...] D
As Los Angeles had such an important role in the film, director Paul Haggis insisted the film be sho [...] D
In the recent awards tradition, usually the movie that wins the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture [...] D
Roger Ebert, who gave the film four out of four stars, was one of the few critics who defended this [...] D
Martin Norseman, who plays Detective Conklin (a non-speaking part), is Paul Haggis' next-door neighb [...] D
When the Oscar nominations were announced in January 2006, this film, which was the only Best Pictur [...] D
With only a budget of $6 million for this film, director Paul Haggis had to cut the costs by using h [...] D
Paul Haggis holds the distinction of being the only person ever to write the screenplay for two cons [...] D
The Persian couple are called Shereen and Farhad. "Shereen and Farhad" is an ancient Persian love st [...] D
Terrence Howard who played James Rhodes in Iron Man (2008) would later be replaced by Don Cheadle in [...] D
This was the first Best Picture film since Rocky (1976) to win only three Oscars. D
Thandiwe Newton was Paul Haggis' first choice for her character. D
Ashlyn Sanchez's debut. D
Cast includes 17 actors, to have projects involve PR tours to UK, embankment area nearest both The R [...] D
The role of the TV director was originally offered to Forest Whitaker, who turned it down to finish [...] D
One of the things that inspired the movie was that director Paul Haggis was carjacked himself. D
Ryan Phillippe appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) while Jennifer Esposito appeared i [...] D
This was the lowest-grossing Best Picture Oscar winner since L'ultimo imperatore (1987). D
Director Paul Haggis had wanted Christine to drive a Lexus SUV or a similar car that reflected her s [...] D
The film's make-up artists aged Shaun Toub by about fifteen years. D
In the years following the release of Crash (2004), director Paul Haggis admitted that his film did [...] D
A TV series based on the play was produced by Starz in 2008. It ran for two seasons, being truncated [...] D
At 1:01:30, a wrecked car in the background has the license plate 2GAT123, a prop plate famous for a [...] D
A few years after the release of Crash (2004), The Hollywood Reporter polled hundreds of voters in t [...] D
The Yellow Mini Cooper in the garage of stolen cars was director Paul Haggis' car. D
This is the third movie named Crash. The title also belongs to a 1978 ABC telefilm and David Cronenb [...] D
One of two Best Picture Oscar winners whose title has only one syllable, the other being Ali (1927), [...] D
This was the first Best Picture Academy Award-winning film to be released on the then newly introduc [...] D
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco wrote the first draft of the screenplay in just two weeks. D
William Fichtner's scenes were shot in just one day. D
For the scene in which Daniel is trying to convince his daughter to get out from under the bed, dire [...] D
Director Paul Haggis suffered a heart attack during filming, but had refused to let anyone else fini [...] D
Before the 78th Academy Awards, Stephen Colbert predicted Crash would win Best Picture over Brokebac [...] D
Terrence Howard, Keith David and Larenz Tate all previously appeared together in Dollari sporchi (19 [...] D
Before Ryan Phillippe signed on, Heath Ledger was in talks for the role of Hansen. Ironically, Ledge [...] D
In almost every scene, there is a symbol pertaining to Christmas. D
Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an appearance in the film, not as an actor, but as Governor of Californi [...] D
Two Koreans were intentionally cast as the "Chinese" couple to underscore the fact that most non-Asi [...] D
Sandra Bullock was so committed to appearing in this film that she bought her own plane ticket to fl [...] D
Is one of only two movies (the other being La stangata (1973)) to have won the Academy Award for Bes [...] D
Until The Hurt Locker (2008) won the Oscar for Best Film four years later, this was the lowest gross [...] D
The only Best Picture winner initially released before the previous year's Best Picture (Million Dol [...] D
The movie explores the interconnected social behaviour themes of, Perceived economic racial stereoty [...] D
This movie was particularly controversial when it won the Oscar for Best Picture over the more criti [...] D
Lionsgate spent $2 million to promote the film to Academy members in the run-up to the Oscars. D
Annie Proulx, author of I segreti di Brokeback Mountain (2005), wrote a strong polemic against this [...] D