Additional information for Crossing Over, which has a domestic theatrical release set for February 27, 2009. The film is being distributed by The Weinstein Company and has not yet been rated. Crossing Over has a total running time of 113 minutes.
R
USA
M18
Singapore
15
Norway
K-15
Finland
IIB
Hong Kong
18
Ireland
14A
Canada
16
Germany
18
UK
16
Iceland
12
Netherlands
PG-12
Japan
B15
Mexico
M/16
Portugal
PG-13
Philippines
MA
Australia
13
Argentina
18
South Korea
113min
140min
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Crossing Over is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the ... See full summary
After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, officer Max Brogan takes care of her little son, and brings him to the boy's grandparents in Mexico. Later the woman is found dead near the border. Brogan returns to the grandparents to tell them the bad news.Cole Frankel, a corrupt immigration officer, makes a deal with Australian immigrant Claire Shepard: he can have unlimited sex with her for two months, then she gets a green card. In the course of the two months he separates from his wife and wants to make the relationship with Shepard one of love, but she declines. He exempts her from completing the two months and arranges the green card. However, authorities find out and arrest him and Shepard is deported. His wife Denise Frankel adopts a little girl from Nigeria, who has already been in the detention center several years.Brogan has an Iranian colleague, Hamid Baraheri. Hamid's family disapproves of his sister having sex with a married man. Encouraged by his father his brother plans to beat them up, but he ends up killing them, and is arrested.South Korean teenager Yong Kim, who is about to be naturalized, reluctantly participates in a robbery with four others. Hamid kills the four in a shootout but lets him go. He lies to the authorities that there were only four robbers.Gavin Kossef, a young British immigrant, pretends to be a religious Jew, to get a job at a Jewish school, which allows him to stay in the U.S. In a test where he has to demonstrate his familiarity with the Jewish religion he does not perform properly, but a rabbi asked to assess it approves it, so that the immigrant passes the test. After the test, in private, the rabbi requires from the immigrant to take lessons from him to eliminate the deficiencies in his knowledge.Taslima Jahangir, a 15-year-old girl from Bangladesh, presents a paper at school promoting that people should try to understand the 9/11 hijackers. The school principal reports this to authorities. She is not charged for this, but it turns out that her parents and she are illegally in the U.S. One parent of choice can stay with the girl's two younger siblings, who are U.S. citizens because they were born in the U.S., the girl has to leave with the other parent to Bangladesh, even though she has lived there only until she was three. She leaves with her mother, and cannot even say goodbye to her father.
Wayne Kramer
Director(s)
Wayne Kramer
Writer(s)
Michael Beugg
executive producer
Wayne Kramer
producer
Frank Marshall
producer
Gregg Taylor
co-producer
Omar Veytia
line producer: Mexico
Bob Weinstein
executive producer
Harvey Weinstein
executive producer
Producer(s)
Mark Isham
Composer(s)
Max Brogan
Harrison Ford
Cole Frankel
Ray Liotta
Denise Frankel
Ashley Judd
Gavin Kossef
Jim Sturgess
Hamid Baraheri
Cliff Curtis
Mireya Sanchez
Alice Braga
Claire Sheperd
Alice Eve
Taslima Jahangir
Summer Bishil
Special Agent Phadkar
Jacqueline Obradors
Yong Kim
Justin Chon
Zahra Baraheri (as Melody Khazae)
Melody Zara
Farid Baraheri
Merik Tadros
Sanjar Baraheri
Marshall Manesh
Minoo Baraheri
Nina Nayebi
Rokeya Jahangir
Naila Azad
Munshi Jahangir
Shelley Malil
Abul Jahangir
Jamen Nanthakumar
Jahanara Jahangir
Jaysha Patel
Kwan
Leonardo Nam
Steve
Tim Chiou
Mark
West Liang
Justin
Johnny Young
Marla
Lizzy Caplan
Alike
Ogechi Egonu
Juan Sanchez
Aramis Knight
Chin Kim
Chil Kong
Detective Strickland (as Mahershalalhashbaz Ali)
Mahershala Ali
Border Patrol Agent
Bailey Chase
Pooneh Baraheri
Sarah Shahi
Min Kim
Sung Hi Lee
Seung Kim
Andy Kang
Rabbi Yoffie
Roger Marks
Immigration Adjudicator
Terence Bernie Hines
Howie
Josh Gad
Judge Freeman
Maree Cheatham
Liquor Store Owner's Wife
Esther Paik
Liquor Store Owner
Greg Joung Paik
Javier Pedraza (as Reynaldo Valentin)
Rey Valentin
San Pedro ICE Processing Agent
Michael Cudlitz
Special Agent Howell
Juan Garcia
Crossing Over
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive producer
Wayne Kramer
producer
Frank Marshall
producer
Gregg Taylor
co-producer
Omar Veytia
line producer: Mexico
Bob Weinstein
executive producer
Harvey Weinstein
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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