Synopsis
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
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Cast
- Harrison FordMax Brogan
- Ray LiottaCole Frankel
- Alice EveClaire Shepard
- Ashley JuddDenise Frankel
- Jim SturgessGavin Kossef
- Cliff CurtisHamid Baraheri
- Alice BragaMireya Sanchez
- Summer BishilTaslima Jahangir
- Jacqueline ObradorsSpecial Agent Phadkar
- Justin ChonYong Kim
Recommandations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
Crossing Over is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view. - 63
ReelViews
Enough things in Crossing Over work to keep the film from becoming a bore, but this is a definite step down from Kramer's past efforts, "The Cooler" and "Running Scared." - 40
New York Daily News
Writer-director Wayne Kramer adds what could be called mainstream threads to his messy script, but the result is simplistic across the board. - 30
New York Magazine (Vulture)
There are a bunch of other clunky immigrant subplots (the Jews get a comic one, the Turks a scary one), but it isn't until the massacre–cum–civics tutorial in the liquor store that Crossing Over crosses into the mythic realm of camp. What a waste. I still say it's better than "Crash," though. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of "Crash." - 30
Variety
The way the picture dwells almost exclusively on cinematically exploitable elements -- gangbanger crime, prostitution, honor killing, terrorism paranoia -- gives it a sordid patina that even the classy, able thesps can't offset. - 30
Village Voice
And so it goes, with Kramer--who doesn't really seem to like people very much--failing to muster even the superficial empathy the makers of the similarly programmatic "The Visitor" and "Rendition" showed toward their own cardboard-cutout imperiled illegals. - 20
Slate
All of its plot threads are equally dreadworthy.
