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Crash [digital videodisc] / Jeremy Thomas and Robert Lantos present ; an Alliance Communications production ; a David Cronenberg film ; co-producers, Stéphane Reichel and Marilyn Stonehouse ; written by David Cronenberg ; produced and directed by David Cronenberg ; produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada ; produced with the participation of The Movie Network TMN.

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[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]

Traffic accidents -- Drama.

Traffic accident victims -- Drama.

Fetishism (Sexual behavior) -- Drama.

Paraphilias -- Drama.

Psychosexual disorders -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1059.

2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.

Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

"For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J.G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass--and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it debuted at Cannes--where it won a Special Jury Prize 'for originality, for daring, and for audacity'--Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing"--Container

Rating: NC-17; for numerous explicit sex scenes.

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