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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GENIUS PRODUCTS INC
EAN: 0796019820264
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Weinstein Company
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
MPN: 1000610
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 09, 2009
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/09/2009 Run time: 140 minutes
Amazon.com:
The director of The Cooler tries a bigger canvas: Crossing Over is Wayne Kramer's take on nothing less than the vast subject of illegal immigration, coming at the topic from a dozen or so directions. Hefting the most star power is Harrison Ford, scurrying about as an L.A. Immigration and Customs officer whose conscience is sore from having trundled so many illegals back over the border--now he's worried about the child of a particularly vulnerable woman (Alice Braga). Cliff Curtis plays Ford's partner, an Iranian-American whose family is not as assimilated as his casual manner might suggest. There's a bit of pulp swagger in other sections of the picture, as Kramer tries to channel his inner Sam Fuller: for instance, an Immigration official (Ray Liotta at his piggiest) coerces an Australian actress (Alice Eve) into a sex-for-green-card affair, and an adolescent Arab-American girl (Summer Bishil, from Towelhead) gives a cheeky speech at school that puts her family under suspicion as possible terrorists. Other strands of this scenario aren't as urgent, as Ashley Judd dreams of adopting the African child she's tending, and Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), as a British non-believer, tries to convince Immigration authorities of his commitment to working at a Jewish school. The movie's single best scene has him "auditioning" to convince a rabbi of his commitment to Judaism, a funny moment that also carries an echo of the history of Jewish exodus. The movie has a tendency to bash from one thing to the next, too neatly connecting its Crash-like plotlines, like a really spirited first draft of a better movie. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  -
Harrison Ford in another excellent role, showing his versatility as an all around actor of the highest caliber.
Rating:  -
I suppose some people love a drama, for them this is a 10 star movie. But to me when I buy a movie by Harrison Ford I expect top notch acting and a script that Hollywood money can afford and the right knowledge of how to make it all happen. The end result is supposed to leave me feeling highly entertained and look forward to watching it again some day, because after all thats why I bought it, not rented or borrowed it from a local library. In the case of this movie I wish I had gotten it for free ... Read More
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Let me say, from the beginning, that I admire Wayne Kramer's remarkable "Crossing Over", as a sincere attempt to humanize the real problem of illegal immigration in the United States, and to remind us that many nationalities are a part of the situation, with some immigrants, in our country nearly all their lives, fulfilling all of the obligations of American citizens, except for actually being citizens. For those who see every person illegally here as either enjoying a 'free ride' on law-abiding citizens, ... Read More
Rating:  -
What I like about this movie is that it points out that not just latins/ Mexicans
are coming across the southern International border. An Islamic girl
writes a report about suicide bombers and is deported when it is found that both she
and her parents are illegal.
A beautiful Australian girl makes a deal with a government official
of a sexual favors sort to get a green card. A singer -song writer
finds his Jewish roots in order to stay in the country.
Life and death ... Read More
Rating:  -
This movie is really great. Everyone will enjoy it. It is really awesome.
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