I think this is really an exceptional film. I didn't find really a false note in the behavior of any of these characters.
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03/02/09
Crossing Over (2009)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:16
Rotten:86
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability.
Theatrical Release:Feb 27, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $402,469
Synopsis: 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).... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis
Director: Wayne Kramer
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Reviews for Crossing Over
It's a film about the issues, but it's a film about people.
03/02/09
It's a powerful opening to a movie that rapidly fractures into a hodgepodge of interlocking subplots showcasing immigration woes.
03/02/09
Harrison Ford barely registers in a misconceived immigration drama.
03/02/09
The film plods along until late in the game when its mystery story is resolved with three nested flashbacks by a filmmaker with a markedly unimaginative sense of cinematic storytelling.
03/01/09
Once the plot mechanics kick into gear, it becomes increasingly difficult to take the movie seriously.
03/01/09
A sub-par knockoff of Paul Haggis' "Crash," writer/ director Wayne Kramer's L.A.-based dramatic tapestry is a threadbare yawner.
02/28/09
Sporadically provocative, but often convoluted and dull with undercooked messages and ideas.
02/28/09
Ignore the other critics. This is an engrossing, thoroughly entertaining movie with great performances from a first-rate ensemble cast.
02/28/09
Intense immigration drama doesn't live up to its intentions.
02/27/09
This is a movie with the courage to examine the pressing issue of whether hot blond Aussie starlets are sleeping with government agents -- whom they meet in fender benders -- to get green cards.
02/27/09
Top CriticCrossing Over has its heart in umpteen places and its head stuffed with dramatic claptrap.
02/27/09
Top CriticAn interesting failure, a movie that at least strives to be about something, entangling itself with the question of what it means to be an American -- or, more specifically, what it means to deserve to live here.
02/27/09
Top CriticTrust Kramer, though, to spring surprises with the help of a risk-taking cast.
02/27/09
Top CriticA well-intentioned drama about complicated immigration issues that falters thanks to a wobbly screenplay.
02/27/09
Sadly simplistic. Predictable, too.
02/27/09
Top CriticForced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
02/27/09
Top CriticIn its intensely earnest and utterly relentless pursuit of the whole truth--and nothing but the truth--about the evils of immigration policy in the United States, Crossing Over sometimes borders on the ridiculous.
02/27/09
Crossing Over delivers its sanctimony with less hand-wringing and more fist-shaking, complete with lurid violence and periodically bared female flesh.
02/27/09
Apparently Sean Penn was cut from this film. Lucky him.
02/27/09
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