Crossing Over

Genre:Drama

Language: English
Director: Wayne Kramer

Cast: Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta (Battle in Seattle)

Runtime: 113mins

Plot:

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 asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.

Watched the movie on 17 April night @ GV Vivo Europa with Sylvia, Dorris & Andy.

Will you give up anything and everything for a status for be an American Citizen? Will you betray yourself to remain in the free country? Will you risk your life even you know you will be deported whenever you are being caught?

Mexicans, Chinese, Palestinian, Australian, Persian, Koreans, all are desperate to leave their homeland and find means to stay in America, legal or illegal. These immigrants all have dreams, but not all the time, everyone can have their dreams come true. Especially when the situation involve human emotion and law enforcement.

While all the characters in the movie cross each other's path, it is all about family. No matter how hard one strives, to go or leave, to feel belonged or abandoned. When one feel lost, it is family that find you and brings you home.

ah-deng says: 3 / 5 Probably one of the most powerful, heart wrenching immigrant stories.