Changing Lanes (Blu-ray) R

An ambitious lawyer, a desperate father, they had no reason to meet, until today,
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 10, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Paramount

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...Adeptly written....CHANGING LANES is especially good at bringing an urban nightmare to the screen...
Los Angeles Times
Apr 12, 2002
...Excitingly alive....This is one of the best movies of the year...
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 12, 2002
...Jackson's performance provides the heart of the story. Illuminating the idea that things are sometimes not what they seem, Jackson shows us a doting father and persistent husband...
Box Office
Jun 1, 2002
Rating: 4/5 -- Changing Lanes is a surprise. Full Review
BBC.com
Oct 15, 2002
Combines a knack for storytelling with a rare instinct for exploring ideas within the framework of a major, star-driven Hollywood movie.
Variety
Sep 22, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- It's a bit contrived, but this is a strongly acted two-hander...
Guardian
Nov 19, 2002
...CHANGING LANES is actually an intense, intelligent and gripping moral drama...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2002

Product Description:

Two cars collide on the FDR expressway. Their drivers--two seemingly opposite men--are Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a young white partner in a powerful law firm, and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a meek, working-class black man. At the scene of this fender bender, Gavin, who is busy trying to make a business appointment on his cell phone, offers Doyle a blank check to cover damages. Doyle, wanting to properly exchange information, declines, causing Gavin to flee the accident site. In his haste, Gavin leaves behind an important legal file which Doyle uses to his advantage, setting off a brutal cycle of revenge between these two men who began this Good Friday as strangers.

A class commentary that is decidedly different from director Roger Michell's previous film, NOTTING HILL, CHANGING LANES provides very little information about its two central characters before the moment of their car accident. Michell introduces them by crosscutting between both men speaking publicly--Gavin is lecturing to a charitable foundation, Doyle is talking at an AA meeting. These techniques of crosscutting and mirror imaging are used effectively throughout the film to underscore that the obvious social and economic differences between the two men doesn't disguise the dark and angry nature that exists in both of these men, and potentially in all of humanity.

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