Changing Lanes

Name: Changing Lanes
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
Released: 2002-04-07
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt

One wrong turn deserves another.

Changing Lanes (2002)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Release date

2002-04-07

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, Scott Rudin Productions, Senator International

Genre

Thriller, Action, Drama

Budget

$45 000 000

Box office

$94 935 764

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Director

Roger Michell

Actors

Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt, Amanda Peet, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Baker, Kim Staunton, John Benjamin Hickey
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Scenario

Producer

Scott Rudin, Ronald M. Bozman, Adam Schroeder

Camera operator

Salvatore Totino

Composer

David Arnold

Artist

Kristi Zea

Audition

Ellen Lewis, Marcia DeBonis

Editing

Christopher Tellefsen
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

The day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, director Roger Michel impulsively removed the Twin Towers from the opening shots of the film using computer graphics. He later realized the error of his decision and restored the original footage during re-editing.
Screenwriter Daniel Pine participated in the project but was never credited in the film's titles.
Director Roger Mitchell personally attended several meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to get a general sense of how a scene involving Samuel L. Jackson should look on screen.
Samuel L. Jackson's purple hat was entirely the actor's own choice. Notably, his characters in various films quite often wear clothes of this color or deal with various purple items.
During filming, Ben Affleck was urgently recalled for several days for suddenly required reshoots of certain scenes from "Pearl Harbor" (2001).
The car accident scene was filmed over two days on the FDR Highway near New York, which was closed to regular traffic for this time.