Crash

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Crash

NC-17,

1996,

1h 40m,

Drama

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65%

62 Reviews

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61%

50,000+ Ratings

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65%

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62 Reviews

61%

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50,000+ Ratings

"Crash" is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of "Crash" carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave.

Critics Consensus

Despite the surprisingly distant, clinical direction, Crash's explicit premise and sex is classic Cronenberg territory.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Nov 27, 2020

4/5

It risks being laughed at, and there is a definite, tiny grain of Razzie absurdity that is a part of its weirdly hypnotic high-porn torpor.

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Rob Humanick

Slant Magazine

Nov 12, 2012

4/4

[A] necessarily disturbing and equally profound inquiry into human desire, however self-destructive.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Apr 4, 2011

C-

For a movie obsessed with the connection between sexual intercourse and car accidents, David Cronenberg's Crash could hardly be more stationary.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Mar 19, 2026

4/5

‘…burrows into one of the darkest areas of human behaviour and makes a virtue of horrific detail…’

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Sam Moore

Vague Visages

Jun 5, 2024

While the bodies of these David Cronenberg characters are fusions of technology and skin, the acts that they engage in are also a sort of fusion.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Jun 21, 2023

6/10

Somehow, its start hooks me with its original premise extracted from the fictional engine of J.G. Ballard, but I'm afraid its erotic vehicle of symphorophilia loses fuel and crashes on repetitive roads. [Full review in Spanish]

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Han G

Mar 18, 2019

weird, even for Cronenberg but pretty cool 7/10

Anakin S

Aug 7, 2018

Wow. This movie was depraved, dark and all-together unnecessary. Yet quality actors somehow agreed to partake in its making. Hard to believe. This movie is built on such an outlandish premise so as to make it intriguing on one level yet darkly disturbing on every other level.

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Kylo W

Feb 14, 2018

This movie is too sophisticated even for this Rotten Tomatoes clique, members of which consider themselves critics. A perfect choice for a St. Valentine viewing if you ask me.

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Kylo R

Dec 28, 2017

When I saw this movie years ago I remember being indifferent towards it. I didn't like or hate it. I remember it though. So Cronenberg created memorable images. The story was rather dull. I don't remember that.

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Han W

Nov 27, 2017

bizarre film about freaks who get turned on by car crashes. alot of sex and alot of cars crashing. weird but cool i guess, personally i dont enjoy car crashes

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Han S

Aug 18, 2017

This is not an easy story to put on the screen, and should maybe be left that way. The film is cheap and shallow, with no depth and no explanation in any form as to what its about. After 30 minutes, the film loses direction and loses your attention. If you like getting off on dull celeb sex scenes for over 90 minutes, then this is for you.

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Synopsis

"Crash" is about the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of "Crash" carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave.

Director: David Cronenberg
Producer: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Production Co: The Movie Network (TMN), Telefilm Canada
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Nov 17, 1998
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.4M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround

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