I rented a really excellent movie on Wednesday called "Crash", directed by Paul Haggis who wrote "Million Dollar Baby". Very good flick, highly recommended.

Great story about several characters of different racial backgrounds that collide in a series of incidents, over the course of a few days in LA. Decent cast with a lot of "B" level stars (Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillippe, etc) but they all manage to do a great job.

Great socio-political discourse without being too preachy or one sided. In fact co-writer Bobby Moresco explains that they had to avoid "trying to be politically correct" in discussing race to make the story work. Think, the message from "American History X" (without all the violence) meets a story that is laid out like "Pulp Fiction" (with all those short vignettes in random order).The review at IMDb (towards the bottom of the page) sums up the movie pretty well.

It came just came out earlier this year and never really hit very big at the box office due to the movies it was up against on Memorial Day weekend, but it was a critical darling. IMDb has it ranked in it's coveted top 250 movies of all time, at an astounding #60. Oh, and Entertainment Weekly gave it an A.

If you really want to get a feel for what the movie is like, visit the "Crash" hompage and watch the trailer or click on "experience the movie" and run though that real quick.

- these thoughts flowed through Jeff's fingers @ 10:03 AM