STEP 3: Write down the characters' names and the different stories in the film.

Sandra Bullock
Don Cheadle
Matt Dillon
Jennifer Esposito
William Fichtner
Brendan Fraser
Terrence Howard
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Thandie Newton
Ryan Phillippe
Larenz Tate
Michael Pena
Shaun Toub

A police detective who have a addict mother and a missing brother, two carjackers who discuss about the racism, a fiscal who stole his car, a racist police veteran who look after his father, a film director and his wife, a persian immigrant who buy one gun, a looksmith and his daughter.