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Unger's breakthrough role came in David Cronenberg's 1996 erotic drama Crash, about a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. Unger followed up her performance in Crash by starring with Michael Douglas in the psychological thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher.
Crash: Directed by David Cronenberg. With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger. After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are aroused by car crashes and tries to rekindle his sexual relationship with his wife.
Deborah Kara Unger. Actress: The Game. Deborah Kara Unger was the first Canadian accepted into the prestigious Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. She made her feature film debut in Blood Oath (1990), followed by roles in Christopher Crowe's Whispers in the Dark (1992), Till There Was You (1991), and Highlander: The Final Dimension ...
Oct 8, 2021 · The film follows husband and wife James and Catherine (James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger) as they become inducted into the deviant group (Credit: Alamy)
A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated ...
James Ballard : You should've gone to the funeral. Catherine Ballard : I wish I had. They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months.
Aug 16, 2020 · He and wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) have an open relationship; early scenes show each having sex with someone else, then meeting later to discuss the details. But after a bad car crash...
Jan 17, 2012 · In Crash, television producer James Ballard (played by David Spader) and his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara UNGER) lead complex, if hollow, sexual lives.
Dec 1, 2020 · But it is Deborah Kara Unger who delivers the film’s signature performance: she plays James’s wife, Catherine, as a series of precisely posed ice sculptures. However ostensibly erotic Catherine’s behavior, her endothermic characterization robs it of all heat and friction.
