Crossing Over (Blu-ray) R
Every day thousands of people illegally cross our borders... only one thing stands in their way. America.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 8, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Weinstein Company
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta & Sean Penn | |
Performer: | Summer Bishil, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Justin Chon, Alice Braga, Alice Eve & Cliff Curtis | |
Directed by | Wayne Kramer | |
Screenwriting by | Wayne Kramer | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Produced by | Bob Weinstein, Frank Marshall, Wayne Kramer & Harvey Weinstein | |
Director of Photography: | James Whitaker | |
Executive Production by | Michael Beugg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/5 --
Any one of these stories, if properly fleshed out and shorn of contrivance, would have made for a perfectly serviceable film. Instead, we have lots of hysterical little bits of nothing much.
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Time Out
The director, Wayne Kramer crisscrosses these stories into a diverting anthropological melodrama, with enough coincidence to keep the action unified.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1/5 --
Crass, contrived, tackily salacious and politically loaded in the most insidious way, this dodgy piece of nonsense purports to be an ensemble, multi-stranded drama in the style of Traffic or Crash.
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Guardian
Ford brings a quiet intensity to Max Brogan....Ray Liotta brings astonishing dimension to Cole Frankel...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 2/5 --
Well-acted but increasingly either melodramatic or just plain dull.
London Evening Standard
It's compassionate, decent-minded and highly watchable, but as angry, heavy-handed and overemphatic as a rubber stamp crashing down on an immigration form.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 2/4 --
These stories might seem too coincidental and even preposterous. It wouldn't have mattered had they been well-told.
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Washington Times
Product Description:
The struggle to achieve resident alien status, or gain full-blown citizenship in the United States, provides some thought-provoking material in this feature from director Wayne Kramer(THE COOLER). CROSSING OVER is an ensemble piece that contains many overlapping storylines, most of which revolve around Max Brogan (Harrison Ford), a law enforcement official who specializes in arresting people who break stringent immigration laws. Joining Ford is Ray Liotta, who plays a corrupt immigration official who forces a wannabe Australian actress (Alice Eve) to sleep with him in exchange for a green card. The film also focuses on the rigorous guidelines laid down in post-9/11 America, with Kramer detailing the shocking maltreatment of a teenage girl who faces deportation after giving a misguided high school presentation on terrorism. These tales, and several others, all combine to present an intricate overview of the desperate and often overwhelmingly sad lengths people will go to so they can remain in the United States.
Kramer’s film closely mirrors other harrowing ensemble pieces such as Paul Haggis’s CRASH (2004) and Richard Linklater’s FAST FOOD NATION (2006). CROSSING OVER carefully presents many different sides of this complicated issue and also examines how coincidence and good fortune can play a part in achieving resident status. Ford is perfectly cast as the downcast lead character who battles with the moral and ethical ramifications of his job, and frequently gets too close to the people he is required to prosecute. Kramer skillfully interweaves each tale and allows just enough screen time to each of his characters, with Cliff Curtis leading the excellent supporting cast by playing an Iranian-American immigration official whose life is irrevocably altered by a series of tragic personal and professional occurrences.
Kramer’s film closely mirrors other harrowing ensemble pieces such as Paul Haggis’s CRASH (2004) and Richard Linklater’s FAST FOOD NATION (2006). CROSSING OVER carefully presents many different sides of this complicated issue and also examines how coincidence and good fortune can play a part in achieving resident status. Ford is perfectly cast as the downcast lead character who battles with the moral and ethical ramifications of his job, and frequently gets too close to the people he is required to prosecute. Kramer skillfully interweaves each tale and allows just enough screen time to each of his characters, with Cliff Curtis leading the excellent supporting cast by playing an Iranian-American immigration official whose life is irrevocably altered by a series of tragic personal and professional occurrences.