Changing Lanes
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- Released
- 06/06/2003
- Film and TV Genre
- General, Thriller, Drama
- Video Format
- PAL
- DVD Region
- 2 (will only play on Region 2 and Multi-Region DVD players)
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 that 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.
Plot Synopsis
The lives of two men become intertwined following a car accident. Doyle Gibson's car is written off in the crash and Gavin Banek gives him a blank cheque to cover the damage, however important files get mixed up in the process...
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Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Roger Michell
- Year of release
- 2002
- Aspect Ratio
- 2.35:1
- 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital
- Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Czech English German
- Disc Features
- Alternative Ending / Directors Cut
- Interactive Menus
- Making Of
- Scene Selection
- A Writers Perspective Featurette
- Commentary By Director Roger Michell
- more »
- Subtitle Language
- Arabic,
- Bulgarian,
- Czech,
- Danish,
- Dutch,
- Finnish,
- German,
- Icelandic,
- Norwegian,
- Polish,
- Romanian,
- Swedish,
- Turkish,
- RomanianSwedish
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Rating (Australia)
- MA15+
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (UK)
- 15
- Run Time (minutes)
- 95
- Tags
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- English
- Cast & Crew
- Chap Taylor (Author)
- David Arnold (Composer)
- Salvatore Totino (Director of Photography)
- Adam Schroeder (Executive Producer)
- Arnold M. Bozman (Executive Producer)
- Scott Rudin (Producer)
- Chap Taylor (Screenwriter)
- Michael Tolkin (Screenwriter)
