The Air I Breathe

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Director: Jieho Lee

Stars: Brendan Fraser, Kevin Bacon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker, Julie Delpy, Andy Garcia, Emile Hirsch

Year: 2007 Running Time: 95 mins Rating:

Crash takes Short Cuts into The Twilight Zone in pop promo director Jieho Lee’s directorial debut. Four strangers all looking for a way out of their lives intertwine as fate takes them on journeys they will never forget. A starry cast of interesting actors give it all they’ve got in this rollercoaster of emotion.

Review

Forest Whitaker is an office dullard whose life of conformity has left him empty, save for a love of butterflies.

Overhearing a fixed racing tip he puts 50 Gs on the horse to win (named Butterfly), which falls, putting him in the hands of Fingers (Garcia), a gangster who liberates digits from his debtors.

Working for Fingers is a sad-eyed hitman (Fraser) cursed with an ability to see the future. He falls for Trista (Gellar), a pop star whose management has sold her to the vile gangster, and Fraser takes it upon himself to rescue his love.

Speaking of love, doctor Kevin Bacon is besotted with his best mate’s wife (Delpy), so when she is bitten by a rattlesnake he has 24 hours to find a match for her rare blood group.