Movie #461 "Crossing Over" was a "Crash" and "Babel" wannabe, but didn't quite get to the poignancy that they both did, but it was very good. It DOES handle several stories woven together on the topic of immigration. Each of the people played their parts very well, while dealing with a woman who gets taken in becaus she doesn't have a green card, but her child was left at a neighbor's and she won't see him again; a teenager gets up in front of her history class and says that she can understand that the pilots who ran their planes into the world trade cneter were just looking for their voices (as a result, our government deports her immediately); an actress from Australia doesn't have a green card and she offers to sleep with a guy who can get her a permit to stay in the U.S. because she just got a great t.v. role; a little girl's only friend is her defense lawyer; an immigration officer (Harrison Ford) no longer can do his job without becoming emotionally pulled in to the families he finds he is tortuing by catching the illegals; another teenager a few days before his naturalization ceremony is dragged into a gang's violence against a storeowner; the sister of one of the immigration cops (Ford's partner0 is killed and the police dept. tries to find who the murderer is. A very engrossing film and I found it very intriguing an discussion worthy on a topic we should be talking about and thinking about how to handle it.
4 stars
Crossing Over
(2009) R
Boasting an all-star cast that includes Harrison Ford, director Wayne Kramer's thoughtful drama weaves several stories together to create an emotionally charged examination of immigration in Los Angeles. Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta co-star in the powerful ensemble film, which provides a harrowing look at border crossing, document fraud, asylum seekers, naturalization, counterterrorism and the clash of cultures in America.
Genre: Political Dramas, Social Issue Dramas, Latino Dramas
This movie is: Emotional
Availability: DVD and Blu-ray
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