A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.
Acting
Jackson's phone-booth breakdown should be studied in schools.
Writing
Tight script keeps both men somehow sympathetic monsters.
Direction
Michell squeezes claustrophobia from every Manhattan canyon shot.
Director
Roger Michell
Ben Affleck
Gavin Banek
Samuel L. Jackson
Doyle Gipson
Toni Collette
Michelle
Sydney Pollack
Stephen Delano
William Hurt
Doyle's Sponsor
Amanda Peet
Cynthia Delano Banek
Richard Jenkins
Walter Arnell
Dylan Baker
Finch
Kim Staunton
Valerie Gipson
John Benjamin Hickey
Carlyle
Michael McGrath
Seavers
Bruce Altman
Terry Kaufman
Jennifer Dundas
Mina Dunne
Joe Grifasi
Judge Cosell
Tina Sloan
Mrs. Delano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released post-9/11, the film's rage-at-strangers energy accidentally captured a wounded city's hair-trigger hostility.
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