A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.A young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
- Mina Dunne
- (as Jennifer Dundas Lowe)
- Gina Gugliotta
- (as Lisa Leguillou)
Storyline
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- TriviaA day after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, director Roger Michell had the World Trade Center towers digitally removed from the opening main title sequence in the film. In the DVD commentary, he admitted that it was a mistake to erase them, and make it appear as if they did not exist. During the re-editing of the film, Michell reinserted them as a tribute.
- GoofsWhen Gavin Lights the paper on fire and raises it to the sprinkler head, that type of sprinkler head would only discharge the water. No other heads would spray water. The reason for this is to minimize damage.
- Quotes
Doyle Gipson: I hope you don't mind, but I was intrigued by your conversation. I just thought you were in advertising. So I want to give you my dream version of a Tiger Woods commercial, okay? There's this black guy on a golf course. And all these people are trying to get him to caddy for them, but he's not a caddy. He's just a guy trying to play a round of golf. And these guys give him a five-dollar bill and tell him to go the clubhouse and get them cigarettes and beer. So, off he goes, home, to his wife and to their little son, who he teaches to play golf. You see all the other little boys playing hopscotch while little Tiger practices on the putting green. You see all the other kids eating ice cream while Tiger practices hitting long balls in the rain while his father shows him how. And we fade up, to Tiger, winning four Grand Slams in a row, and becoming the greatest golfer to ever pick up a 9-iron. And we end on his father in the crowd, on the sidelines, and Tiger giving him the trophies. All because of a father's determination that no fat white man - like your fathers, probably - would ever send his son to the clubhouse for cigarettes and beer.
- Crazy creditsThanks to the staff and Militia Force members and veterans at the Marcy Avenue Armory, Brooklyn, New York.
- Alternate versionsThere was an early review of the movie that contained a spoiler of the ending. The ending that was originally used involved Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson getting into a fist fight that leads onto the balcony. They talk about right and wrong and Affleck takes the file and tears it up and the movie fades to credits. This ending was most likely cut because test audiences did not like it. It will most likely appear on the DVD. Also a small clip shown in the TV ads shows Affleck and Jackson fighting on the balcony. This was part of the original ending which explains why it was cut.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Changing Lanes: The Writer's Perspective (2002)
There is racial commentary in a very mild sense but there is a purity in the pre wokeness that just affords Samuel L Jackson real not hyperbolic character. It is almost a blackness here before the modern caricature leftism created. Imagine it made today.
I guess my point with that is we can still talk about race in cinema without all the nonsense.
It is one I needed a lot more life experience than the mindless thriller it was 20 years ago. I have had three Changing Lanes in the last ten years alone. In a high stakes world of capitalism that is a race to find any sort of economic, or social edge, there is a flattened equlibrium in that everyone is equal in one way, their drive for capitalistic actualization.
The dehumanization of the rat race turns us into these capitalistic bodies, rather than spiritual bodies. It is constantly a perfect proxy, except down into hell inside of up. The entire battle is nearly won once you realize a theological framework. From there it is finding those edges.
The alcoholism is a relief valve in that all this pressure has the result of mind rot. It has a consequence, it is saying, not on the body but the very soul. The fascination is they are both racing for their own different edge and come across each other like boulders in the way. They are not opposed or enemies in any sense.
One of my Changing Lanes experience was about a stock I had everything in and the other guy had everything in wanting it to crash to zero as a personal vendetta against the company.
It escalated virtually exactly like Changing Lanes. He destroyed the company. He tried to stay anonymous but I went through great lengths to find out who he was and saw he was working with a team of people around the clock to destroy this company. Pettiness, escalation, cat and mouse ensued; they wanted to kill me, and I wanted to kill them, then resolution. I made money in the stock eventually, I won, but only after he crashed it to near zero. So he won too. Because once he crashed it he bought it up too.
Although I was the victim I lost my victimhood in escalation. He dragged me down to hell, which is part of what he wanted. To drag others down actualizes ones own victimhood. It makes god listen.
That was one of a couple experiences in the last few years alone. I always thought of the movie Changing Lanes in those situations. If I wrote those stories out, it would be exactly like this movie. I always end up forgiving them, and myself too, that we are living in the very image of the rat race. Ie, man is not the image of god but is the image of capitalism. It is not personal. They had their reasons. Then the miracle of this movie is it is not just what they go through in this movie. Like, Jesus Christ is always helpful, but he is not about to make the other person budge. Sometimes you suffer in such a way it must be resolved, or that you will die.
That's why this movie is so perfectly accurate, it is almost like going past religion into the battlefield itself. If there is a Christ here it is in the gradual resolution through time, the universe bending toward justice, while the battle is where we are on our own. Everything is coded in already we are just ritualizing a very ancient spiritual resolve that is about how pride has cast us down a fallen world.
Last the idea there being spiritual winners and losers is once again capitalism by design, not spiritual. The fact there are losers taints winning as this inherently malicious design. It is the very wellspring of the leftist capitalist interface, the original sin of there being winners indicts all of us, god, the host himself, in cruelty. This is an elevated idea that comes from somewhere. I always wonder then what graduation is spiritually and remember story structure. The character is home. The camera pans out and credits roll. Happily ever after. Perhaps it is why the Gnostic Luciferean occult says god is an absolute tyrant. I personally believe we get many chances and bend to an outcome over time. Like that there is a test to begin with is the most brutal tough love of all because the reward is that great. The moral universe is profoundly unfair in this frame but that is only reflecting the unfairness of us choosing this to begin with.
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Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $66,818,548
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,128,062
- Apr 14, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $94,935,764
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1