Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and overwhelming.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20267/10
Set against the background of a racially diverse Los Angeles, this follows the activities of a (not exactly random) selection of people whose lives unexpectedly intertwine over a day and a night in the city. The city's DA (Brendan Fraser) is a shrewd politician who will use whatever tools he can to stay in office whilst his over-indulged wife (Sandra Bullock) - they were the recent victims of an all-black carjacking - only thinly veils her disdain for people of colour excusing that on the basis of her recent experience rather than some more fundamentally philosophical attitude. Meantime, the rather odious cop "Ryan" (Matt Dillon) takes the concept of a body search a little too far when he stops "Cameron" (Terrence Howard) and his wife "Christine" (Thandiwe Newton) - disgusting (or does he?) his newbie partner "Hanson" (Ryan Phillipe) in the process. Meantime, detective "Graham" (Don Cheadle) and his partner/occasional friend-with-benefits "Ria" (Jennifer Esposito) are on the case of what might be another racially motivated crime and finally, amongst the principals, there are the two jackers themselves whom we are gradually exposed more to as their antics once again touch on the liv
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_**Provocative psychological drama**_ Peoples of differing ethnicities and social-economic levels 'crash' into each other in Los Angeles over a day or so at Christmas time. These people include: A white cop who's angry over the downside of affirmative action and so abuses his authority (Matt Dillon); his young white partner who objects to the abuse and actively tries to counteract it (Ryan Phillipe); a black TV director who feels emasculated over the racism he experiences and ultimately blows up (Terrence Howard); his light-skinned wife who doesn't know when to shutteth up (Thandie Newton); an Hispanic locksmith (Michael Peña) and his young daughter with an ‘impenetrable invisible cloak’; a Persian shopkeeper who needs a scapegoat after his store is horribly vandalized, not to mention his daughter and wife; two black car thieves (Ludacris and Larenz Tate), the latter the younger brother of a detective, Graham (Don Cheadle); Graham's beautiful partner and girlfriend, Ria (Jennifer Esposito), and her mother, a maid to the District Attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his wife (Sandra Bullock); an Asian man who’s hospitalized and his frantic wife racing to see whether he's alive or dead. "Cr
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Cast
- Don CheadleDet. Graham Waters
- Sandra BullockJean Cabot
- Brendan FraserRick Cabot
- Matt DillonOfficer John Ryan
- Jennifer EspositoRia
- Michael PeñaDaniel Ruiz
- Terrence HowardCameron Thayer
- Thandiwe NewtonChristine Thayer
- LudacrisAnthony
- Larenz TatePeter
Crew
- Paul HaggisDirector
- Paul HaggisScreenplay
- Bobby MorescoScreenplay
- J. Michael MuroDirector of Photography
- Mark IshamOriginal Music Composer
- Hughes WinborneEditor
- Bob YariProducer
- Cathy SchulmanProducer
- Paul HaggisProducer
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