Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

One wrong turn deserves another.

R 2002 · 98 min · ★ 6.3 (1K) · Thriller, Drama

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

Directed by Roger Michell · Written by Chap Taylor

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Streaming

Rent or Buy

Cast

Ben Affleck Gavin Banek
Samuel L. Jackson Doyle Gipson
Toni Collette Michelle
Sydney Pollack Stephen Delano
William Hurt Doyle's Sponsor
Amanda Peet Cynthia Delano Banek
Richard Jenkins Walter Arnell
Dylan Baker Finch
Kim Staunton Valerie Gipson
John Benjamin Hickey Carlyle
Michael McGrath Seavers
Bruce Altman Terry Kaufman

Make it a double feature

3h 42m together

Changing Lanes

Notting Hill

Both from Roger Michell.

More from Roger MichellSee all →

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies · 2014

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

SeriesDramaCrime

Christopher Jefferies's life is turned inside out when one of his tenants disappears without a trace just before Christmas.

Notting Hill

Notting Hill · 1999

MovieRomanceComedy

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

Persuasion

Persuasion · 1995

MovieDramaRomance

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

The Duke

The Duke · 2021

MovieComedyDrama

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame · 2018

Nothing Like a Dame

MovieDocumentary

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

Blackbird

Blackbird · 2019

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

Birthday

Birthday · 2015

MovieComedyTV Movie

Sky Arts’ adaptation of Joe Penhall’s 2012 Royal Court play Birthday sees Mangan reprise the role of Ed who endures a caesarian birth with his high-flying wife by his side.

Venus

MovieComedyDrama

Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.

Morning Glory

Morning Glory · 2010

MovieDramaComedy

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

Performance

Performance · 1991

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Le Week-End

Le Week-End · 2013

MovieComedyDrama

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

The Mother

The Mother · 2003

MovieDramaRomance

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

The Buddha of Suburbia

The Buddha of Suburbia · 1993

The Buddha of Suburbia

SeriesComedyDrama

Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his middle-class neighbours. Karim wants to explore his cultural roots, in the hope that he will achieve sexual and racial self-realisation.

Enduring Love

Enduring Love · 2004

MovieDramaThriller

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel · 2017

My Cousin Rachel

MovieDramaRomance

A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) · 2022

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

MovieDocumentaryDrama

Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.

More Like This

Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me · 2007

Then She Found Me

MovieComedyDrama

A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.

Red

MovieDramaThriller

Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, attempting to follow the letter of the law. But when the law fails him, and the boys' father clearly defines right and wrong in his own way, Avery must avenge himself by any means possible.

Deuces Wild

Deuces Wild · 2002

MovieActionCrime

In 1950s New York City, a bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn between the Deuces and the vicious Vipers.

Game of Death

Game of Death · 1978

MovieDramaAction

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock · 1948

MovieCrimeDrama

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill · 2008

MovieCrimeThriller

Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

Sicario

Sicario · 2015

MovieActionCrime

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner · 2002

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

MovieFantasyDrama

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.

Uncle Frank

Uncle Frank · 2020

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

The Good Night

The Good Night · 2007

MovieComedyDrama

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

Eden Lake

Eden Lake · 2008

MovieHorrorThriller

When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

Stonewall

Stonewall · 2015

MovieDramaHistory

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie · 2002

The Truth About Charlie

MovieThrillerMystery

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter