Crashers

Logline: A trio of reckless and impulsive young people devise risky car accidents to collect insurance blood money, get caught up in the seamy underworld of crime and auto insurance fraud and suffer the nightmarish descent as events spiral out of control.

Tagline : “Danger is just around the corner.”

How far would you go to get rich? If you ever became desperate enough, due to circumstances beyond your control, would you resort to reckless and extreme measures to make ends meet? Would you cut in front of a sparkling, new Mercedes on the busy L.A. freeway and slam on the brakes? What if it were that easy?

Enter the world of Crashers!

Crashers is a gritty, action-packed story about a group of young people who get caught up in the seamy underworld of auto insurance fraud. After losing their "real" jobs, the avaricious trio stages car accidents to collect the insurance blood money. It is an edgy story that chronicles the nightmarish descent of the characters as events spiral out of control.

Through a series of intertwined yet separate events, Crashers takes us from the contented lives of our young protagonists, to a web of lies and corruption, leading to a lethal tragic ending. The story takes place during a blistering hot summer on the angry and crowded streets of Los Angeles, California. The two young leads, Nathan and Shari, are engaged, happy and blissfully unaware that their lives are about to change. When the couple find themselves at the end of their rope, they resort to dangerous and careless behavior to survive. When Shari meets the sexy and mysterious Bryce, he leads her into the world of crime and teaches her how to be a “capper”. As Shari becomes more and more obsessed with her strange new world, she drags the reluctant Nathan down with her. What starts out as a game turns deadly, as the characters change from productive members of society, to greedy and sadistic criminals.

Crashers is raw and disturbing, a powerful cautionary tale about what happens when people are seduced by the lure of easy money and cheap thrills. It is an utterly harrowing account of some young and beautiful kids, whose greed and love of the fast life, leads them on a horrifying descent into self-destruction and death. Crashers is fast paced, thrilling and has a broad demographic appeal. It also takes a unique slant on the genre, as this idea is completely original. In particular, the story should appeal to a young, male audience. Any fan of the action/car chase genre will enjoy Crashers.