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Crash (1996)

Thu, Jun 13
  • 9:15 pm INTRO

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Thu, Jun 13 @ 9:15 pm: Introduced by series co-curator Shayna Maci Warner

Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 100 min. Format: 35mm Rating: NC-17 Release Year: 1996

Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette

Film producer James Ballard (James Spader) has a pretty plush life, but even with his wealth and beautiful wife, things are starting to feel a little mundane. Late one night, Ballard’s life changes in a flash, a terrible, twisted car wreck that only he and another passenger (Holly Hunter) survive. The two strangers meet in recovery, and they obsess over one-another’s gruesome scars and the white hot memory of hard impact, twisted metal and supple flesh. They aren’t alone, either. As the two start an affair, they fall in with a cult of other crash survivors who are hellbent on recapturing the intense, sexual fusion of flesh with steel.

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