David Cronenberg’s bold erotic psychological thriller Crash follows a group of strangers brought together by a car accident whose shared fixation with collisions, sex, and danger draws them ever deeper into a world of obsession and escalating risk. Based on J. G. Ballard’s novel, the film remains one of Cronenberg’s most provocative and unsettling explorations of compulsion, intimacy, and self-destruction.
Awarded the Special Jury Prize (Prix spécial du Jury) at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for its “originality, daring, and audacity.”
“A necessarily disturbing and equally profound inquiry into human desire, however self-destructive.” — Slant Magazine (4/4)
Crash Crash
Canada, United Kingdom
100 min
Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette, Deborah Kara Unger