Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) is an up and coming New York Attorney that is way on the road to success. In a rush to file a questionable power of appointment, Banek accidently collides with another car. That car is with insurance salesman Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) whom is also in a hurry to make a court appearance to gain custody of his children and prevent his wife from moving them to Oregon. This one incident serves as a domino effect that will affect both of their lives in ways they can not even imagine. After Banek tries to buy him off with a check and it doesn’t work, he takes off without waiting for the proper authorities. However Banek doesn’t realize he has left the court documents at the scene of the crime and gives him to the end of day to present the material. Gipson arrives too late for his hearing and his motion is thrown out of the court and he has now lost the only thing he cars about – his kids. In a chance meeting out in the street, the two once again come face to face but Gipson is to devastated to care or listen to the man who a few hours ago would not give him the time of day.

Can the two find a way to work together and rectify the morning events? These are just some of the questions in a film about chance meetings, vengeance and seeing clearly to do the right thing regardless of the costs. The film that was listed at one of the best of that year by Ebert & Roeper is now available on Blu-ray with a few special features.

First up you have a commentary track by director Roger Mitchell. I can’t say this is the best commentary track you’ll ever listen to. There are a lot of dead space however there are some choice moments from his praise of actor/director Sydney Pollack to the reasoning of keeping the WTC towers in the film. The Making of Changing Lanes is a fifteen minute featurette is really a throw away and other then a few interviews there are no behind the scenes footage. A Writer's Perspective is way too short but it goes into analyzing a few choice scenes in the film and is worth checking out. There are also one Extended Scene and two Deleted Scenes clocking in at a total of ten minutes and is also worth checking out that flesh out a few extra scenes.

Changing Lanes is a film that will start a dialog after watching. Even though it’s a very Hollywood driven far fetch plot, the film will make you think and question what you would do in that situation. Lets hope you wouldn’t take it as far as these two did and perhaps it may help you take a breath the next time you do get into a bad situation.

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