The other reviewers missed a few key points, mainly that the crasher is suffering from writer's block. That's the driving point in the script as we see him mix inspiration with sexual tension while basically never leaving the apt. A short movie and worth renting, but not a "Let's hit the sack" comedy romp AT ALL. It starts slowly and could have started with some later scenes where he actually moves in, but then we'd miss the character set up, which didn't have to be ham-fisted, since the rest of the movie isn't. Yeah! The tension builds as he gains confidence and the 2 girls flirt more and more, but not in a schoolgirl way. Yeh, the acting is a little wooden and the girls are kinda boring, but that adds credibility that pays off with the cool happy ending.

This movie is sufficiently complex that you need to watch it very carefully to be sure you don't miss anything. It's basically a demonstration of the craft of writing - and a very good one at that. Because the movie is written so well, if you think about it afterward, you'll get an excellent insight about how to advance your ideas via suggestion, rather than plodding explanations. The context shifting between what's real and what's imagined by the characters themselves (as they also think and write) forces you to really pay attention. I'd say it's definitely worth watching - especially if you want to see how it makes your own thinking react.

Writer seeks inspiration in apartment of 2 college girls. You know the synopsis, or at least you think you do.Well get ready for some surprises. Crashing follows the minds and imaginations of Richard, Kristin and Jacqueline as they create reality together. Or do they? Through their writing, the scenes of Crashing unfold in a series of parallel stories, intertwined, and interdependent. Crashing unfolds with multiple threads and explores alternate possibilities. It's almost as if the movie is being written as you are watching it...This movie is perfection to me. As a writer I saw myself in every scene. Thinking my way through situations. Imagining various outcomes. Creating characters and embellishing. ...Some would call it enhancing reality.If you are a creative person, and especially if you are a writer, you will appreciate and love this movie. The slow, melodic music winds its way through the movie, carrying you along. Crashing is even better than the French erotic movie, The Swimming Pool, with a similar premise.

Geez it's been a while since I've written a review but I've been in a rut seeing action-prison-bad-guy-does-good genre flicks that usually end up boring me after 20 minutes. The last film that actually amused me was the latest Star Trek (2009). It's been a dry spell when it comes to movies that go beyond face value - I kid you not...Crashing (2007) had me interested from the starting credit music - a quirky, sparse little woodwind theme that would be repeated throughout the film.The film is about a the travails of a writer, Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott) stumbling over himself and the roadblock of first novel success. Comfortable, complacent and frustrated by eternally trying to repeat the formula of his first book.Richard's life gets ripped apart when his wife kicks him out of the house and freezes his bank accounts. At a creative writing presentation he tells of his writer's block and new sense of heady liberation due to circumstances beyond his control, and gets invited to crash at the apartment of a female student. And so Richard ends up sleeping on the couch of coeds Kristen and Jacqueline, provided that he critiques their own writing endeavors.Much credit to Izabella Miko and Lizzy Caplan, who nicely contrast each other as the muse twins of dark and light. I've been a fan of Campbell Scott since Roger Dodger (2002) and here he is just as amusingly self-deprecating.It's an engrossing movie that will pull you in as the author and two young girls intertwine in life and in fiction.