Changing Lanes (2002)

98 min. Director: Roger Michell. Cast: Ben Affleck, William Hurt, Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Samuel L. Jackson.

Doyle Gipson

a moral individual whose frustration keeps boiling over

telemarketer in AA William Hurt: "You're addicted to chaos"

Gavin Banek

senior partners Walter Arnell (Richard Jenkins) and Stephen Delano (Sydney Pollack), the latter his father-in law (he's cheated with assistant Michelle (Toni Collette) on wife Cynthia (Amanda Peet)

unfolds patiently

I'm fine--I's nothing...

Nothing?
Who's that?

It's no one.

This may be nothing to you.

writes him a blank check and takes off

making gibson 20 mins late

Simon Dunne Foundation for kids

bruce Altman

BA: "Sometimes God likes to put two guys in a paper bag and just let 'em rip!" "We're taught this fairy tale. The good end well, and the bad end poorly!" it's a war between the states regardless of class, their lives are tenuous--

"fixer" Dylan Baker

raising stakes and continual near-misses

every action has an escalating and opposite reaction