Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes is a 2002 American drama thriller film directed by Roger Michell and starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. The film follows a successful, young Wall Street lawyer (Affleck) who accidentally crashes his car into a vehicle driven by a middle-aged, recovering alcoholic insurance salesman (Jackson). After the lawyer leaves the scene of the accident, the two men try to get back at each other, engaging in a variety of immoral and illegal actions that end up having a major impact on each man's life.
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| Screenplay by | Chap Taylor
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| Running time | 99 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $45 million
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| Box office | $94.9 million
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Gavin Banek: Sorry, better luck next time.
- A day after the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, Roger Michell had the WTC 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.
- Ben Affleck was called for re-shoots on Pearl Harbor (2001) during principal photography on this movie.
- The interior of the house that Doyle Gipson is seen in during the main title sequence was not a set. It's in fact the interior of a real house in Queens, New York which Roger Michell had found while scouting locations.
- Screenwriter Daniel Pyne contributed as an uncredited writer to this project.
- Ben Affleck took to wearing a wetsuit under his costumes in the film's final scenes because he got so cold standing under the fire sprinklers for hours on end.
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