When the doctor and James recover in hospital they begin an affair and get involved with other like-minded people to fulfill their sexual fantasies. When James is involved in a car accident he is immediately attracted to the passenger of the other car in the collision, Dr Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). They seek to spice up their sex lives by indulging in a series of casual affairs. The central couple in the film, James and Catherine Ballard (James Spader and Deborah Unger) live in an apartment overlooking a motorway. This was after a nationwide campaign against the film was engineered by the Daily Mail newspaper and its often hysterical film critic Christopher Tookey. This would start a ball rolling which despite its eventual uncut 18 certificate a year later would culminate in the banning of the film by Westminster and four other local councils. The film’s controversial subject matter led to a scathing review by critic Alexander Walker in the Evening Standard when he had seen it prior to its UK release at the Cannes film festival in 1996. This film is about a group of people who seek sexual gratification through car crashes. Whilst the depiction of sex and violence in films has often been the main focal point for the British Board of Film Classification’s decision making, never have the two been combined more provocatively in mainstream cinema as in the film Crash. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette and Elias Koteas.
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