After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
James Spader
James Ballard
Holly Hunter
Helen Remington
Elias Koteas
Vaughan
Deborah Kara Unger
Catherine Ballard
Rosanna Arquette
Gabrielle
Peter MacNeill
Colin Seagrave
Cheryl Swarts
Vera Seagrave
Yolande Julian
Airport Hooker
Nicky Guadagni
Tattooist
Ronn Sarosiak
A.D.
Boyd Banks
Grip
Judah Katz
Salesman
Markus Parilo
Man in Hanger
Alice Poon
Camera Girl
John Stoneham Jr.
Trask
David Cronenberg
Auto Wreck Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
Director, Writer
David Cronenberg
Novel
J.G. Ballard
May 11, 2016
9
One thing has to be said in my fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's favour--At least for the first 25-or-so years of his filmmaking career, he has always been one of the most surprising and brilliant minds of 'body-related horror', and from every conceivable angle. What other mind--out of 7 billion possibilities--could have come up with this, the combining of erotic pleasure with car crashing? He sure must have been an interesting catch in his early dating years, for the adventurous women out there...
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$9,000,000.00
Revenue:
$2,671,855.00