Changing Lanes (2002)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 99m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
A lawyer for an unscrupulous legal firm and an irascible insurance broker fighting for his children have a prang on the city freeway and are both late for their day in court. As the former struggles to regain possession of a key piece of evidence left at the scene of the accident, there begins a game of tit-for-tat and recrimination which results in both men losing most of the self-respect they had to start with, before the inevitable redemptive ending.
Review:
If only it had ended in the office two scenes before the end, but no matter: this two-handed had long since surrendered much in the way of indulgent suspension of disbelief as it manipulates its flawed characters into ever more extreme 'wrong decision situations'. It's not even particularly interestingly acted, though it does keep one watching.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 99m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
A lawyer for an unscrupulous legal firm and an irascible insurance broker fighting for his children have a prang on the city freeway and are both late for their day in court. As the former struggles to regain possession of a key piece of evidence left at the scene of the accident, there begins a game of tit-for-tat and recrimination which results in both men losing most of the self-respect they had to start with, before the inevitable redemptive ending.
Review:
If only it had ended in the office two scenes before the end, but no matter: this two-handed had long since surrendered much in the way of indulgent suspension of disbelief as it manipulates its flawed characters into ever more extreme 'wrong decision situations'. It's not even particularly interestingly acted, though it does keep one watching.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 99m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack
Synopsis:
A lawyer for an unscrupulous legal firm and an irascible insurance broker fighting for his children have a prang on the city freeway and are both late for their day in court. As the former struggles to regain possession of a key piece of evidence left at the scene of the accident, there begins a game of tit-for-tat and recrimination which results in both men losing most of the self-respect they had to start with, before the inevitable redemptive ending.
Review:
If only it had ended in the office two scenes before the end, but no matter: this two-handed had long since surrendered much in the way of indulgent suspension of disbelief as it manipulates its flawed characters into ever more extreme 'wrong decision situations'. It's not even particularly interestingly acted, though it does keep one watching.