SummaryThe US offers hope—but that often comes at a price. Many can earn citizenship legally through a lengthy bureaucratic process, but others find themselves out of luck in a country where virtually anything can be bought. Sex, violence and betrayal become their currency. Some wait in line for permission to enter the U.S. while others take matters ... Read More
Directed By:Wayne Kramer
Written By:Wayne Kramer
Crossing Over
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
38
User score
Mixed or Average
5.4
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
38
19% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
48% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
32% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
67
Tied together with endless, flattening shots of L.A.’s cloverleaf freeways, Crossing Over is often simplistic and occasionally lugubrious, but it's rarely boring.
63
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."
50
Had Crossing Over chosen to tell one of them well, rather than seven badly, it would have made for a fine movie. Instead, all we get is a mess of good liberal intentions loosely anchored to a mass of pure Hollywood hokum.
50
There is undoubtedly a good movie in the varied experiences of American newcomers. But it would need to involve sagas more urgent and more original.
40
Writer-director Wayne Kramer adds what could be called mainstream threads to his messy script, but the result is simplistic across the board.
30
The film plays like a garish melodrama that reproduces the most ham-fisted, polemical aspects of "Crash."
10
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.4
33% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
50% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
17% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Feb 4, 2012
7
The movie portrays several different stories that seem to all be different. I watched the movie for class and we were only showed a few parts of the entire movie but from what I saw i enjoyed and it made me curious to see in it its entirety to truly understand it all. I would say that the movie is decent but not blow your socks off amazing. If you want a movie that jumps around a bit and makes you think, this will do it.
Production Company:
- The Weinstein Company
- The Kennedy/Marshall Company
- Movie Prose
- C.O. Films
- Fuji Film
Release Date:Feb 27, 2009
Duration:1 h 53 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Every day thousands of people illegally cross our borders... only one thing stands in their way. America.
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Awards
Yoga Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
