Crossing Over Trailer Starring Harrison Ford and Ray Liotta
If you thought that Harrison Ford was semi-retired from acting save for Indiana Jones sequels, well, you were wrong. A trailer for his latest film Crossing Over has hit the web, and it looks like something a bit more ambitious than some of his recent movies like Firewall and Hollywood Homicide. Directed by Wayne Kramer (The Cooler, Running Scared), this is another bold attempt to create a multi-threaded drama around a meaningful theme: in this case, that theme is U.S. immigration.
Comparisons to Traffic, Babel and Crash are obvious, and I hope for Kramer’s sake that it falls closer to the first two rather than the latter. With a cast that includes Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Jim Sturgess, it seems like they might be up to the task, but it will really depend on the writing. While The Cooler was a decent film, I’m not so sure that Wayne Kramer can pull it off without feeling forced or corny. Either way I am kind of a sucker for movies like this, and I think there are definitely some interesting issues that could be explored. Check out the trailer below and see what you think. Crossing Over will be released sometime in 2009.
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You can view an edited trailer with ONLY footage showing Jim Sturgess’ character, Gavin Kossef, who is based on director Wayne Kramer’s own experiences with U.S. immigration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlhOJClYQQ
***** SPOILERS ******
Sturgess plays a British-jewish singer, who masquarades as a Jewish rabbinical student to get into the U.S. illegally. Sturgess wrote and performed two songs in the movie. According to my source, “Make Your Mind Up,†was used as background music in one of the scenes and another jim-song was performed on stage by him.
Apparently Jim’s charcter (Gavin) has an Austrailian girlfriend who has sex with an INS agent in order to stay in the country. There’s a very emotional scene where Gavin confronts his girlfriend when he finds out about the affair.
Jim’s performance was outstanding, especially one scene where, under tremendous pressure Gavin is forced to sing in Hebrew to prove himself in front of a rabbi and INS agent. He apparently doesn’t know Hebrew and fakes it, while the rabbi covers for him.
Posted by Fantasy Girl on November 13th, 2008This one looks pretty ham fisted. I’m pro immigration since people coming to the US with motivation to improve their lives usually leads to a general improvement of the area but the way people politicize this issue is not going to lead to a solution it’ll just make you a Nazi if you have problems with illegals and a terror tempting idiot if you don’t.
Posted by Ian on November 14th, 2008I can’t believe you say you are pro immigration! You don’t know the half of what goes on and what happens when so many are coming over illegal!! My husband is an ICE agent and the things he deals with would make you sick!!! Shame on you!!!
Posted by ICE agent wife on December 22nd, 2008If a country needs to depend on “immigration”, it means that people cannot afford to raise families. Bad enough when both husband/wife need to work to sustain a decent quality of life.
Posted by Baychuk on December 22nd, 2008ICE agent wife, you also need to see the horrible bureaucratic mess that the legal immigration system is in the United States. It took 18 months to legally admit my wife and stepchildren to the U.S., while I was preparing for a 5th military deployment in the service of the same country that was keeping her out! To quote Harrison Ford in the movie: “…She deserved better from this country. My country!”.
It is bad examples like that to make others hop a fence rather than await mindless delays in processing immigration petitions. Her work authorization petition was rejected because USCIS changed a mailing address after we sent it in, and it set somewhere for almost 3 months. They didn’t want to forward it to the other address, but sure did forward the application fee to try to cash it!
There are corrupt immigration officials like the movie depicts, enticing applicants with a lure of a Resident Card in exchange for money and/or sexual favors. I really hope this movie will show Americans that have not experienced this process how things truly are. There are so many mistaken beliefs about immigrants and their lives in coming to the United States it is crazy.
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