To be honest, this sounds a little clichéd and familiar. Crash provided us with an LA ensemble a while ago and before that both Magnolia and Short Cuts have covered the whole “intertwining damaged lives in LA” thing, in both cases with extraordinary critical and artistic success.
So far, we have Meg Ryan, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson (Control, Across the Universe), Anthony Anderson (Transformers, The Departed, K-Ville) and Kat Dennings (The 40-year old Virgin, The House Bunny) confirmed on board, with Chris Rossi writing and directing.
Filming is due to start mid-November and of course it is far too early to say how the film will turn out. Despite the film’s similarity to the other projects named above, there is no reason why, with a good enough script and capable direction, it cannot make its own mark among its esteemed company, as Crash did before it.