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Changing Lanes Movie Rating: 
Crowd-pleaser | |
| Yuppie lawyer Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) and insurance salesman Doyle Gibson (Samuel L. Jackson) are each rushing to appointments, when their cars collide on a New York City highway. Gavin tosses Doyle a blank cheque for the damage and speeds away, dropping a crucial multimillion-dollar estate case file onto the pavement in his haste. When Doyle's tardiness results in an awful personal setback, he uses Gavin's file as leverage in a little game of payback. | |
| The film explores in some depth Doyle's alcoholism and Gavin's doubts about the legal profession's morality, but director Roger Michell sacrifices the story's deeper social concerns to the more crowd-pleasing game of one-upsmanship. The stars try their best, but they are stuck in a collision between art and commerce. |
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