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Changing lanes - Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Toni Collette, Roger Michell
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
One wrong turn deserves another.
On one side of town ambitious attorney Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) is assigned to deliver an important file to the city court house. On the other desperate father Doyle Gibson (Samuel L Jackson) has just organised buying a new house for his ex-wife and daughter in the hopes of getting them back - they'd no reason to meet until an accident on a freeway causes the former to lose his file and the latter to miss an important court date. The argument soon escalates into a feud as the lawyer gets increasingly desperate to get his file back and resorts to insidious means - the father doesn't take that lying down either.
Persons of interest
- Ben Affleck .... Gavin Banek
- Samuel L Jackson .... Doyle Gibson
- Toni Collette .... Michelle
- William Hurt .... The Sponsor
- Bradley Cooper .... Gordon Pinella
- Ileen Getz .... Ellen
- Chap Taylor .... Screenwriter
- Michael Tolkin .... Screenwriter
- Roger Michell .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Changing lanes official movie site
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Theatrical report
Wanker vs Wanker.
In a battle between two penises and their transportation devices(men), Changing lanes is a morality tale about how everyone should be nicer to each other. The escalating rate of testosterone poisoning occurring between the two antagonists (there's no protagonist) is frightening to behold but scarily true given the situation occurring between, say, George Bush and Saddam Hussein.
On the up side, Ben finally gets back to doing some acting (that was how he got his big break in Hollywood, back in Good Will Hunting) and Samuel L Jackson is less like Samuel L Jackson than he has been since Pulp Fiction. Their increasingly vitriolic relationship is fun to watch (even though there are more co-incidences than Serendipity) right up to the point where they sit down together and make friends without even mentioning the word "litigation". That's when things go too Hollywood. Fortunately, someone's gag reflex kicked in and brought up two - yep, count 'em, two - unhappy endings.
PS: Changing lanes is a good example of why Shakespeare, some 400 years earlier, suggested that the world could be made a better place by killing all the lawyers. He wasn't wrong.
Security censorship classification
M (Adult themes, medium level violence, low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
99 minutes (1:39 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 21 November 2002
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