Crossing Over is a 2009 American independent drama film about illegal 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. Crossing Over was written and directed by Wayne Kramer, himself an immigrant from South Africa, and is a remake of his 1995 short film of the same name. Kramer produced the film alongside Frank Marshall. Crossing Over was filmed on location in Los Angeles in... 2007. There are several stories interwoven throughout the movie. For simplicity, they are separated out in this description, each with its own paragraph. After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, immigration 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. 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.
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| Release date: | February 26, 2009 |
| Directed by: | Wayne Kramer |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frank Marshall, Wayne Kramer |
| Editor: | Arthur Coburn |
| Music by: | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography: | Jim Whitaker |
| Screenplay by: | Wayne Kramer |