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- Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city.
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Summaries. Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city.
Plot. In Los Angeles, Detective Graham Waters and his partner Ria are involved in a minor collision with a car being driven by Kim Lee. Ria and Kim Lee exchange racially charged insults. Waters later arrives at a crime scene, where the body of an unnamed dead child has been discovered.
by Paul Haggis. Buy Study Guide. Crash Summary. The film opens with a commentary by Detective Graham Waters. He and his partner, Ria, have been involved in a car accident with an elderly Asian woman. Ria exits the car and exchanges a series of racially charged insults with the woman.
- Paul Haggis
Crash, American dramatic film (2004) that was written and directed by Paul Haggis and won the Oscar for best picture. Set in Los Angeles, Crash is a series of confrontations and collisions between a broad cross section of people who harbor race-based misconceptions about one another.
- Pat Bauer
May 5, 2005 · Written by. Paul Haggis. Robert Moresco. "Crash" tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless, all defined in one way or another by racism. All are victims of it, and all are guilty it.
Crash Summary. Back. More. Lights, camera, action! A racist cop gets into a car accident with another racist driver. We flash back to the day before, when a racist gun store owner sells a gun to an angry Persian man and his not-angry, not-racist daughter.
by Paul Haggis. Buy Study Guide. Crash Study Guide. In the post-9/11 media landscape, Crash ’s backstory has garnered nearly as much attention as the plot itself. After personally experiencing a carjacking in 1991, television writer Paul Haggis was inspired to pen this story about social and racial tension in Los Angeles, California.
