Crash

Crash (1996)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1996-07-17

Country

Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Téléfilm Canada, Alliance Films, MDP Worldwide, Recorded Picture Company, The Movie Network, Fine Line Features, Alliance Atlantis

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$9 000 000

Revenue

$2 671 855

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Director

David Cronenberg

Actors

James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Peter MacNeill, Cheryl Swarts, Yolande Julian, Nicky Guadagni, Ronn Sarosiak
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Scenario

David Cronenberg

Producer

David Cronenberg, Jeremy Thomas, Robert Lantos

Operator

Peter Suschitzky

Composer

Howard Shore

Artist

Audition

Deirdre Bowen

Editing

Ronald Sanders
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• Five 'Lincolns' were needed for filming – three for driving, one for complete destruction, and another to cut in half and install filming equipment inside.
• The film featured erotic scenes between Ballard and the secretary; Cronenberg cut them, believing that the actors already had amazing 'chemistry' and shouldn't have it undermined by side relationships.
• Vona’s phrase – “A car crash is a productive, not destructive event” – is a direct quote from Ballard’s other novel, ‘Crash’, which was published in 1970, three years before ‘Crash’.
• Cronenberg insisted that the entire film was shot within a half-hour drive of his home in Toronto.
• The film was banned in some countries, and its screening in the United Kingdom was strictly limited.
• David Cronenberg’s agent predicted that this scandalous film would ruin his career.
• The film is based on the novel of the same name by British science fiction writer J.G. Ballard.
• The role of Vaughn was offered to Australian actor Michael Hutchence, who died a year and a half after the film's premiere.
• In 'Crash,' David Cronenberg recreated the accident in which James Dean died.
• Five "Lincolns" were needed for filming – three for driving, one for complete destruction, and another to cut in half and install filming equipment inside.