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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #87 Crossing Over

Published on January 28, 2008

#87.Crossing Over

Director/Writer: Wayne Kramer
Producers: Kramer, Frank Marshall (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

The Gist: Written by Kramer, this examines illegal immigrants the way that Traffic did the illegal drug trade, with intersecting storylines threaded through the film. Ford plays an enforcement agent who stages raids designed to corral illegals, while Liotta plays a USCIS district adjudicator, a bureaucrat dealing with the problems of illegals.

Fact: In 1996 Kramer made a short film by the same name: highly likely that this is the feature film version of what that was.

See It: Harrison Ford and Sean Penn under the same marquee? Not only curious about that pairing but also how Kramer can deliver just like he did with The Cooler.

Release Date/Status?: Look for The Weinstein Company to find a summer tentpole strategy for this one – most likely after the Indiana Jones craze.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).