Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the subject of illegal immigrants coming to (and from) Los Angeles with the same vulgarity that Kramer brought to his 2006 children-in-peril thriller Running Scared, this time (barely) concealed under a paper-thin plaster of Oscar-worthy self-importance.

Like the fictional New Jersey town that served as the backdrop for Kramer’s previous film, Angel City is, for the filmmaker, yet another disenchanted urban forest filled with innocent maidens (Alice Eve as an Australian actress trying to make it in Hollywood); big, bad wolves (Ray Liotta as the INS honcho who offers the Aussie a green card in exchange for daily buttfucking privileges); and world-weary armored knights (Harrison Ford as the Immigration and Customs agent who never met a pretty illegal he didn’t want to save). Similarly traveling along their own breadcrumb trails are a baker’s dozen of black-, brown- and yellow-skinned unfortunates on hand mainly to be crushed by the might of La Migra or squished under the steel-capped boot of post-9/11 racial profiling.

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Firstshowing.net comes today with the official poster of “Crossing Over”, with a Harrison Ford very pissed off stare.
Since Alice has a very small part in this movie, she’s not part of the poster. But if you can remember, our pretty girl is part of the trailer. For this reason, I’ve added screencaptures of it to our gallery. Enjoy!

Crossing Over is written and directed by South African filmmaker Wayne Kramer, of both The Cooler and Running Scared previously, who is a naturalized US citizen himself. The film features an impressive ensemble cast, including Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Alice Eve, Alice Braga, and Jim Sturgess. The Weinstein Company will debut Crossing Over in theaters everywhere on February 27th.

Gallery Links
• Crossing Over (2009) – Poster
• Crossing Over (2009) – Trailer Screencaptures