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'''Collateral''' is a 2004 Academy Award-nominated thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. It was directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie.
The film was well-reviewed by most critics, and maintains an 86% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregate site.
The film is notable for the rare villainous role Tom Cruise plays. There was substantial praise for the performance of Jamie Foxx, including a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination.
The movie takes place in Los Angeles though the original screenplay set the story in New York City. ''Collateral'' is also the first major motion picture to be shot with the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera.

Contents

Plot summary

Cast

Cameos

Awards and nominations

Filming in high-definition

Soundtrack

External links

Plot summary

A sociopathic hitman, Vincent (Tom Cruise) takes a taxicab to carry out a series of contract assassinations in a single night in Los Angeles. The unlucky taxi driver is Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx), who quickly learns what his passenger is up to when Vincent's first victim lands on the roof of the taxi. Max's situation then turns into a tense series of escape attempts and exchanges between the two. Forced into assisting Vincent, Max resentfully drives him around the city. An uneasy, oddly close relationship develops between the two men as they travel and talk between murders.
Eventually, Max realizes that the victims are key prosecution witnesses against an organized crime boss. Max must find a way to save himself and the last target, the attractive female prosecutor of the case (Jada Pinkett Smith), a fare whom Max had picked up earlier that night and charmed into giving him her phone number. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles police detective (played by Mark Ruffalo) is hot on Vincent's trail. However, the FBI (also hot on Vincent's trail) believe that Max is the hitman.

Cast

Actor	Role
Javier Bardem	Felix
Peter Berg	Richard Weidner
Tom Cruise	Vincent
Bodhi Elfman	Young Professional Man
Jamie Foxx	Max Durocher
Irma P. Hall	Ida
Barry Shabaka Henley	Daniel
Richard T. Jones	Traffic Cop #1
Debi Mazar	Young Professional Woman
Jamie McBride	Traffic Cop #2
Bruce McGill	Pedrosa
Emilio Rivera	Paco
Mark Ruffalo	Fanning
Klea Scott	Fed #1
Jada Pinkett Smith	Annie
Jason Statham	Airport Man

Cameos

In the beginning of the film, upon leaving the airport, Vincent (Tom Cruise) receives the briefcase containing his files from an Englishman, played by Jason Statham.
In the scene where Max enters the "El Rodeo" nightclub to meet with Felix, jazz guitarist, Luis Villegas, appears in the background as a member of the band playing in the club. Felix himself is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem in a cameo role.
''The Insider'' co-star Debi Mazar also makes a cameo appearance alongside Bodhi Elfman as a bickering couple in Max's cab.

Awards and nominations

'2005 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards'

★ Won - Top Box Office Film — James Newton Howard, Antonio Pinto
'2005 Academy Awards (Oscars)'

★ Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role — Jamie Foxx

★ Nominated - Best Editing — Jim Miller, Paul Rubell
'2005 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (Saturn Awards)'

★ Nominated - Best Actor (Film) — Tom Cruise

★ Nominated - Best Director — Michael Mann

★ Nominated - Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film

★ Nominated - Best Writing — Stuart Beattie
'2005 American Society of Cinematographers'

★ Nominated - Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases — Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron
'2005 Art Directors Guild'

★ Nominated - Feature Film - Contemporary Film — David Wasco, Daniel T. Dorrance, Aran Mann, Gerald Sullivan, Christopher Tandon
'2005 BAFTA Film Awards'

★ Won - Best Cinematography — Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron

★ Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role — Jamie Foxx

★ Nominated - David Lean Award for Direction — Michael Mann

★ Nominated - Best Editing — Jim Miller, Paul Rubell

★ Nominated - Best Screenplay (Original) — Stuart Beattie

★ Nominated - Best Sound — Elliott Koretz, Lee Orloff, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga
'2005 Black Reel Awards'

★ Won - Best Supporting Actor — Jamie Foxx

★ Nominated - Best Supporting Actress — Jada Pinkett Smith
'2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards'

★ Nominated - Best Supporting Actor — Jamie Foxx

★ Nominated - Best Picture
'2005 Golden Globe Awards'

★ Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - Jamie Foxx

Filming in high-definition

Michael Mann chose to use the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera to film many of the scenes of ''Collateral'', the first such use in a major motion picture. There are many scenes of the movie where the use of the high-definition is evident - especially in scenes where the landscape or skyline of Los Angeles is visible in the background, but also during many of the nighttime scenes, where the high-definition is able to bring out more details in a dark, colorless scene. Mann would employ the same camera for the filming of ''Miami Vice''.

Soundtrack

Track listing:
# Briefcase - Tom Rothrock
# Seed, The (2.0) - The Roots/Cody Chesnutt (extended radio edit)
# Hands Of Time - Groove Armada
# Guero Canelo - Calexico
# Rollin' Crumblin' - Tom Rothrock
# Max Steals Briefcase - James Newton Howard
# Destino De Abril - Green Car Motel
# Shadow On The Sun - Audioslave
# Island Limos - James Newton Howard
# Spanish Key - Miles Davis
# Air - Cuba Percussion/Klazz Brothers
# Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold (remix)
# Car Crash - Antonio Pinto
# Vincent Hops Train - James Newton Howard
# Finale - James Newton Howard
# Requiem - Antonio Pinto

★ Details:

★ Distributor: Universal Distribution

★ Recording type: Studio

★ Recording mode: Stereo

★ SPAR Code: n/a

★ Composer: James Newton Howard.

External links

★ Official site

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★ ''Sight and Sound'' interview with Mann

★ Collateral Script (.pdf}