{{no footnotes|date=February 2013}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Crash Reel | image = The Crash Reel 2013.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = | director = Lucy Walker | producer = Julian Cautherley<br />Lucy Walker | writer = Pedro Kos<br />Lucy Walker | starring = Kevin Pearce | music = Moby | cinematography = Nick Higgins | editing = Pedro Kos | studio = Impact Partners<br />Tree Tree Tree | distributor = HBO Documentary Films<br />Phase 4 Films | released = {{Film date|2013|01|18|Sundance Film Festival|2013|07|15|U.S.}} | runtime = 108 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Crash Reel''''' is a documentary film directed by Lucy Walker which premiered as the Opening Night Gala film on 19 January 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival.
Through 20 years of sports and verite footage, ''The Crash Reel'' chronicles the rivalry between Kevin Pearce and Shaun White which culminates in Kevin's life-changing crash and later comeback. The film also showcases the Pearce family, including Kevin's father glass-blower Simon Pearce and Kevin's brother David C. Pearce who describes his struggle to accept his Down syndrome.
The film also premiered at the X Games on January 23, 2013 in Aspen as the first ever movie to play as a featured part of the event.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} The movie received critical acclaim from critics and audiences.
== Reception == {{Rotten Tomatoes prose|96|7.9|46|Smart, compassionate, and moving, The Crash Reel uses the familiar sport-doc formula to subvert expectations and ask challenging questions about ambition and achievement.|ref=yes|access-date=29 January 2024}} {{MC film|79|15|ref=yes|access-date=29 January 2024}}
== Soundtrack == Transcribed from the ending credits. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Performed by !! Track title |- | Groove Armada || "Paper Romance" |- | Lykke Li || "I Know Places" |- | Stars of the Lid || "Central Texas", "A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process" |- | Canned Heat || "Going Up the Country" |- | DJ Shadow || "Giving up the Ghost" |- | Underworld || "Mmm Skyscraper... I Love You" |- | Cliff Martinez || "Where's The Deluxe Version?", "They Broke His Pelvis", "My Name on a Car" |- | The Chemical Brothers || "K+D+B" |- | Sigur Rós || "Ekki múkk" |- | The Hives || "Come On!" |- | Bon Iver || "Holocene" |- | José González || "Down the Line", "Crosses/Crosses" |- | Spiritualized || "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" |- | Ben Howard || "Black Flies" |- | Moby || "JLTF" |- | Aarktica || "You Have Cured a Million Ghosts" |- | Tycho || "A Walk" |- | Grizzly Bear || "Sun in Your Eyes" |- | M83 || "Wait", "My Tears Are Becoming a Sea" |- | Ryan Adams || "I See Monsters" |- | Asaf Avidan || "One Day Reckoning Song" |- | Crystal Castles || Child I Will Hurt You |}
== References == {{Reflist}} *http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13077/the_crash_reel {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007104859/http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13077/the_crash_reel |date=October 7, 2014 }} *[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/crash-reel-sundance-review-414027 The Crash Reel: Sundance Review] *[https://archive.today/20130407233421/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2013/more/wires/01/18/2080.ap.sbd.kevin.pearce.documentary.1st.ld.writethru.1471/index.html sportsillustrated.cnn.com] *[http://xgames.espn.go.com/video/8850977/crash-reel]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=2499076|title=The Crash Reel}}
{{Lucy Walker (director)}}
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