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Show all (5)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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Holy multicultural day, Batman! Immigration attorney Ashley Judd wears a necklace with a gold pendant of Africa. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Harrison Ford juggles the drama of his Iranian work partner (Cliff Curtis) with his penchant for helping the Mexicans he should just bust in undocumented-worker raids. And at a Jewish day school, earnest Jim Sturgess strums his guitar and mewls in Hebrew like he's still in that kids-discover-the-Beatles musical. Oh, if only. This isn't "Across the Universe." It's "Crossing Over" - or as we call it at my desk, "Crash: Special Victims Unit." (Full review)
"Crossing Over" crisscrosses Southern California, using overhead shots of freeways as section breaks, covering an ambitious variety of green-card tales of woe, establishing so many intersecting lines of fate and circumstance that halfway through you wonder: Is this film going to include every single Angeleno who wasn't in "Crash"? (Full review)