A film about racism, prejudice and the common negative assumptions we all make every day.

Crash is a film about people, rich, poor, good, bad, black, white and every other shade of human being that inhabits Los Angeles. This racially and economically diverse group of people pursue lives that collide with one another in unexpected ways. They say that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries and crash shows just how simple that can be.

Primarily Crash is a film about racism, prejudice and the common negative assumptions we all make every day. Each of the main characters is faced with an event that will change their perception not only of their own lives but also the assumptions they make about the people who share the city of angels.

There's a police detective whose mother can't quite kick her drug habit and whose brother already has three strikes and a warrant out for his arrest. Two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, a district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife. He doesn't want it made public that they've been car jacked by a black person because it might lose him the black vote. Then there's a racist veteran cop powerless to help his sick father, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who come to realise that success doesn't bring immunity from racism, a disillusioned father who buys a gun to protect his shop and a locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets until he gives her his special protective cloak.

Although the blatant racism and bigotry may make us feel uncomfortable it is nonetheless a very realistic portrait and though few of us admit it we have all at some time or another made the same assumptions, if only in the company of those we feel comfortable with.

Crash has a message for everyone, if you get it, you're sure to be a better person.

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