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Rick and Jane Cabot
Sandra Bullock plays Jean Cabot
Jean Cabot is Rick's wife, whose racial prejudices escalate after the carjacking. At the end of the film, following an accident in her home, she realizes that the person who is the nicest and most helpful to her is Maria, her Hispanic maid, while her snobby friends are too busy with shallow pursuits to help her out.
Jean Cabot is Rick's wife, whose racial prejudices escalate after the carjacking. At the end of the film, following an accident in her home, she realizes that the person who is the nicest and most helpful to her is Maria, her Hispanic maid, while her snobby friends are too busy with shallow pursuits to help her out.
Brendan Fraser plays Rick CabotRick Cabot Rick Cabot is the white District Attorney of Los Angeles who manipulates racial politics in order to further his career. His wife is Jean. He is a Democrat and African Americans and Hispanics are his key constituents.
There are a couple that are carjacked by Anthony and Peter, both of whom are black. Anthony and Peter steals his car and ran away.
Chris Bridges plays AnthonyAnthony is an African-American inner-city car thief who steals vehicles for a chop shop owner. He believes that society is unfairly biased against blacks and in the final of the film he justifies his actions by claiming he would never hurt another black person.
Larenz Tate plays Peter Waters
Peter Waters is Anthony's friend and partner in crime. He is also Detective Waters' younger brother. Like Anthony, he is black, but he humorously scoffs at Anthony's paranoia over racism.
Officer Hansen, picks him up in the Valley, hours after their failed carjacking of Cameron's Lincoin Navigator and mistakenly shoots him after assuming he is drawing a gun during an escalating argument. In reality he was reaching into his pocket to show the cop a figure of Saint Christopher, identical to the one Officer Hansen had stuck to his dashboard. As he is dying, he has a expression of surprise and holds out his hand and dies.
Peter and Anthony steal vehicles for a chop shop owner. Then, they have money. Steal the car of Rick and Jane Cabot.
Don Cheadle plays Detective Graham Waters
Detective Graham Waters is an African-American detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. He is disconnected from his poor family, which consists of his drug-addicted mother and criminal younger brother.
At finally that brother is eventually revealed to be Peter, the hitchhiker who is killed by Officer Hansen.
Jennifer Esposito plays Ria
Ria is a Latina detective, as well as Graham's partner and girlfriend.Hispanics. She is shown to be racist toward Asians, as she criticizes an Asian woman's driving.
Ryan Phillipe plays Officer Tommy Hansen
Officer Tommy Hansen is a Los Angeles police officer who, after observing his partner Officer John Ryan pull over Cameron Thayer and Christine Thayer and sexually molest Christine, requests a change of partner because of feelings of guilt over the incident
Matt Dillon plays Officer John Ryan
Officer John Ryan is a bigoted white police officer who physically molests Cameron's wife, Christine, under the pretense of searching for a weapon after pulling over their vehicle and accusing them of endangerment due to Christine performing fellatio on Cameron while he was driving. Meanwhile, Ryan is trying to get help for his father, who possibly suffers from prostate cancer but has been diagnosed with a bladder infection, despite the ineffectiveness of treatmentRyan later puts his own life on the line to save Christine, the woman he molested earlier, from certain death in a fiery car wreck.
Keith David plays Lieutenant Dixon Lieutenant Dixon is Officers Ryan and Hansen's shift Lieutenant. In order to get away from Officer Ryan, he then suggests that Officer Hansen ride in a solo car claiming to have a conditition of "uncontrollable flatulence."
Terrence Howard plays Cameron Thayer
Cameron Thayer is a black television director.In an emotional moment, he fights off Anthony and Peter when they try to steal his car, takes away Anthony's gun, and argues fiercely with armed white police officers. Just when it is very likely that he will be shot to death, Hansen intervenes on his behalf and prevents any outbreak of violence.
Thandie Newton plays Christine Thayer
Christine Thayer is Cameron's wife. She is molested by Ryan after whe
n she and Cameron are pulled over for her giving oral sex to her husband while he was driving them home.he next day she is trapped in an overturned car due to a car accident and, by a twist of fate, Officer Ryan is the man who willingly endangers himself to save her life.
