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Unger's breakthrough role came in David Cronenberg's 1996 erotic drama Crash, about a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. Unger followed up her performance in Crash by starring with Michael Douglas in the psychological thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher.
Crash: Directed by David Cronenberg. With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger. After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
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- David Cronenberg
- NC-17
- James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas
Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are aroused by car crashes and tries to rekindle his sexual relationship with his wife.
- Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs, Ramaswami Harindranath
- 2001
Catherine Ballard : I think I'm all right... [James starts groping and kissing her] Catherine Ballard : ... I think I'm all right. James Ballard : Maybe the next time, darling. Maybe the next time. James Ballard : You should've gone to the funeral. Catherine Ballard : I wish I had.
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, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated ...
- James Ballard
Oct 8, 2021 · The film follows husband and wife James and Catherine (James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger) as they become inducted into the deviant group (Credit: Alamy)
This is Catherine Ballard (Deborah Kara Unger). When her husband James ( James Spader ) returns home, they compare notes; both risked being discovered while having sex in public places. Notice how they talk to each other: It is a point of pride to be cold and detached.