Crash (1996/I)

Director: David Cronenberg Writers: J.G. Ballard (book) David Cronenberg (written by)

Genre: Drama | Thriller

Plot: Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.

CAST

James Spader	... 	James Ballard

Holly Hunter	... 	Helen Remington

Elias Koteas	... 	Vaughan

Deborah Kara Unger	... 	Catherine Ballard

Rosanna Arquette	... 	Gabrielle
Peter MacNeill	... 	Colin Seagrave
Yolande Julian	... 	Airport Hooker
Cheryl Swarts	... 	Vera Seagrave

Judah Katz	... 	Salesman
Nicky Guadagni	... 	Tattooist
Ronn Sarosiak	... 	A.D.

Boyd Banks	... 	Grip
Markus Parilo	... 	Man in Hanger
Alice Poon	... 	Camera Girl

John Stoneham Jr.	... 	Trask