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The lives of two men become intertwined following a car accident. Doyle Gibson's car is written off in the crash and Gavin Banek gives him a blank cheque to cover the damage, however important files get mixed up in the process...

Product Identifiers

ProducerScott Rudin

EAN5014437825339

eBay Product ID (ePID)3959465

Product Key Features

ActorToni Collette, Dylan Baker, Jennie Dundas, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck, Amanda Peet, Bradley Cooper

Film/TV TitleChanging Lanes

DirectorRoger Michell

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\Finnish\German\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Romanian\Swedish\Turkish

Run Time95 Mins

Aspect Ratio2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesCommentary By Director Roger Michell\Making Of Changing Lanes\A Writers Perspective Featurette\Deleted Scenes\Extended Scenes\Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreThriller, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

ComposerDavid Arnold

ReviewsChicago Sun-Times - ...Excitingly alive....This is one of the best movies of the year..., Total Film - ...CHANGING LANES is actually an intense, intelligent and gripping moral drama..., Box Office - ...Jackson's performance provides the heart of the story. Illuminating the idea that things are sometimes not what they seem, Jackson shows us a doting father and persistent husband..., Los Angeles Times - ...Adeptly written....CHANGING LANES is especially good at bringing an urban nightmare to the screen..., Variety - ...CHANGING LANES is on to something...

Additional InformationTwo cars collide on the FDR expressway. Their drivers--two seemingly opposite men--are Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a young white partner in a powerful law firm, and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a meek working class black man. At the scene of this fender bender Gavin, who is busy trying to make a business appointment on his cell phone, offers Doyle a blank check to cover damages. Doyle, wanting to properly exchange information, declines, causing Gavin to flee the accident site. In his haste, Gavin leaves behind an important legal file that Doyle uses to his advantage, setting off a brutal cycle of revenge between these two men who began this Good Friday as strangers.<BR>A class commentary that is decidedly different from director Roger Michell's previous film, NOTTING HILL, CHANGING LANES provides very little information about its two central characters before the moment of their car accident. Michell introduces them by crosscutting between both men speaking publicly--Gavin is lecturing to a charitable foundation, Doyle is talking at an AA meeting. These techniques of crosscutting and mirror imaging are used effectively throughout the film to underscore that the obvious social and economic differences between the two men doesn't disguise the dark and angry nature that exists in both of these men, and potentially in all of humanity.

Executive ProducerAdam Schroeder, Arnold M. Bozman

ScreenwriterMichael Tolkin, Chap Taylor

AuthorChap Taylor

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Czech

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Movie/TV TitleChanging Lanes

Director of PhotographySalvatore Totino