Crossing Over

2009 6.1 (383 votes) 1h 53m

Genres

Crime Drama

Production Companies

Movie Prose
C.O. Films
The Kennedy/Marshall Company
The Weinstein Company

Every day thousands of people illegally cross our borders... only one thing stands in their way. America.

Overview

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.