Ütközés Pont — Changing Lanes, Paramount Pictures (DVD)

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Product Details

• UPC: 5996255711363
• Product Type: DVD Video
• Director: Roger Michell
• Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson
• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Thriller, Drama
• Publisher / Distributor: Paramount Pictures / Magyar NVKE
• Country of Producing: Hungary

Product Features

• Format: DVD Video, single disc
• Runtime: 94 minutes
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Anamorphic, 16:9
• Audio: Hungarian, English, French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Hungarian, English, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Croatian, Slovak, Serbian
• Extras: Audio commentary, deleted scenes, making-of, original theatrical trailer
• Region: PAL Region 2
• Rating: 16

Overview

One morning on a New York City highway, two men's lives collide — literally. Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer in a hurry, cutting corners and running late. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) is a recovering alcoholic trying to hold his life together. A minor fender-bender sets off a chain of escalating, increasingly desperate decisions that spiral through a single day. Changing Lanes is not an action film — it's a taut moral thriller that asks what ordinary people are capable of when they feel wronged, cornered, or simply ignored.

Director Roger Michell keeps the tension coiled without melodrama. Affleck and Jackson anchor every scene with performances that avoid easy sympathy — both men are compromised, both men are trying to do right, and both keep making it worse. The supporting cast (Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt) adds real weight to what could have been a slick thriller. This Hungarian edition runs the original 94 minutes uncut and carries a full multilingual audio suite.

Interesting Facts

• The film was released in April 2002 and debuted at #1 at the US box office, grossing over $17 million in its opening weekend.
• Roger Michell previously directed Notting Hill (1999) — a sharp tonal departure from this pressure-cooker thriller.
• Both leads received praise for avoiding the usual antagonist/protagonist split: critics noted it was genuinely difficult to root for either character exclusively.
• Samuel L. Jackson reportedly considered the role one of his most challenging because the character is sympathetic and morally complex rather than simply powerful or threatening.
• The film's New York City locations were shot largely on actual FDR Drive, adding authentic urban claustrophobia to the freeway scenes.
• Gene Shalit of The Today Show called it "csavaros, megindító, cinikus — egy felkavaró alkotás kielégítően örömteli befejezéssel."

Publishers

Released in Hungary by Magyar NVKE, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Original US production © 2002 Paramount Pictures.

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