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NUMBERS
Box Office: $66,650,688
VHS Rentals: $19,120,000
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CONSENSUS
A dark, compelling drama featuring Jackson's best performance in years.
CAST & CREW
Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette
Directed by Roger Michell
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SYNOPSIS
Two cars collide on the FDR expressway. Their drivers--two seemingly opposite men--are Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a young white partner in a powerful law firm, and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a meek working class black man. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 39 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Apr 12, 2002
Video: Sep 10, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Thriller, New York City
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Changing Lanes Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "Films are made of little moments. Changing Lanes tries for more. It doesn't reach them, but the effort is gratefully received."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "One of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly, but feeling pandered to, which, in the end, might be all the more infuriating."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Changing Lanes is an anomaly for a Hollywood movie; it’s a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say."
-- Scott Weinberg, APOLLO GUIDE
"Director Roger Michell does so many of the little things right that it’s difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Director Roger Michell mounts this thriller as an action-packed, sometimes tongue-in-cheek celebrity death match."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Inside the film’s conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out, but it’s not that, it’s the tension that keeps you in your seat. Affleck and Jackson are good sparring partners."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Roger Michell, who did an appealing job directing Persuasion and Notting Hill in England, gets too artsy in his American debut."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Even if the ride's a little bumpy, with a final lap that's all too suspiciously smooth, you gotta give director Roger Michell, best known for the superfluous Notting Hill, credit for trying."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"A compelling story featuring warring heroes who earn our respect while trying our patience."
-- Jonathan Taylor, CITYSEARCH
"The story loses its bite in a last-minute happy ending that's even less plausible than the rest of the picture. Much of the way, though, this is a refreshingly novel ride."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"That a high-profile movie with big-name actors could inspire such philosophical reflection is impressive."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
""Roger Michell ("Notting Hill") directs a morality thriller.""
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o.k. court house of life type of flick. Strictly middle of the road."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
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"One of the best films I have ever seen, constantly pulling the rug from underneath us, seeing things from new sides, plunging deeper, getting more intense."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Despite some serious script problems, the film works, which may have as much to do with the timeliness of the subject matter -- the forgotten art of common courtesy -- as the skill of the director and the efforts of a good cast."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"One of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting, direction, story and pace."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"When so many Hollywood films actively discourage higher brain functions, you have to give Changing Lanes credit for giving you food for thought."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"An inventive, absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Succeeds both as taut drama and as a thought-provoking
examination of how ordinary people struggle with ethical dilemmas
in their everyday lives."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Fantastic!"
-- Stefan Birgir Stefansson, SBS.IS
"Buy popcorn. Take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Rarely have I seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"There’s something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
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FRESH 71%
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10 |
"The movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Despite slick production values and director Roger Michell's tick-tock pacing, the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Directed with purpose and finesse by England's Roger Mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing, relatively lightweight commercial fare such as Notting Hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"You never know where Changing Lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride. Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is."
-- Joel Siegel, ABCNEWS.COM
"A teasing drama whose relentless good-deed/bad-deed reversals are just interesting enough to make a sinner like me pray for an even more interesting, less symmetrical, less obviously cross-shaped creation."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"It pulls the rug out from under you, just when you're ready to hate one character, or really sympathize with another character, something happens to send you off in different direction."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A seething, searing tragedy of unmannerliness."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"In addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat, Changing Lanes is also a film of freshness, imagination and insight."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Although dampened by intermittent preachiness and an unconvincingly pat and uplifting resolution ... Changing Lanes nevertheless taps into emotions so convincing it elevates the movie above its own shortcomings."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
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"It is slickly made, with excellent production values, quality acting and an intelligent script."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Changing Lanes" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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