CROSSING OVER

Title : Crossing Over

Cast : Harrison Ford, Ray Liota, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess

Genre : Drama

Rating : Very good~ love it ^_^

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Synopsis:

Max Brogan Works for Immigration and Customs enforcement in Los Angeles. Having a raid in a textile company, one of the illegal immigrant Mireya Sanchez begs him to help her pass some money and writes him the address . Brogan refuses to help and throws the address. Unable to sleep due to feels guilty, Brogan tries to find the paper and called his office to meet Sanchez but he fails. Brogan came to the address and paid the money to a lady whom has, Sanchez’ son. He cleans the boy and brings him back to his family in Mexico and promise, the sanchez he would try his best to find Mireya.

Gavin Kossef, a jewish, teaches in jewish school illegally, and tries so bad to get the work. He persuades his mom to finds a rabbi to gives him a good religious record so that he can get the job in the school. He also tries very hard to learn jew language. Upon immigration interview, his interviewer ask him to cast a prayer in Hebrew, since Kossef said he is a good jewish, a religious person, and also teaching in a jewish school, the interviewer also asks a rabbi to witness if his cast is correct.

Taslima Jahangir, a Palestinian girl writes about her sympathy to 9/11 terrorists, earns mockery amongst her classmates. And by the end of the day, FBI shows up, asking her about her writing and they also finds out that Jahangir and her parents are illegal immigrants, and even though two Jahangir’s siblings are Americans, since they were born in America, they still face deportation due to Jahangir’s act. Denise Frankel tries to speak with the FBI and they gives her 3 options, to deport all Jahangirfamily, or just Taslima and her parents, or Taslima and one parent and they will not rise the case.

Hamid Baraheri, Brogan’s partner, arab descendant whose father earns naturalization. Being proud American citizen, the family outcast the youngest, Sarah and also the one and the only family member earns her citizenship by birth, due to her inappropriate behavior. One day sarah is found death, shot on the forehead with her married boyfriend.

Denise Frankel, an immigration defense attorney works on an African little girls case. After being put in juvenile prison for almost 23 months, she still can’t find anyone to adopt the girl, and suggest to her husband, Cole, to adopt the girl.

Claire Shepard, an Australian and always dreams to be an actress in the US. In trying to get her green card, she stumbles in Cole Frankel's trap whom using her as his lust satisfaction as payment of her immigration status.

Yong Kim's family from Korea have work very hard to get their neutralization as US citizens and Yong almost jeopardize his family struggle by joining a gang and involving in a store robbery.

Comments:

The movie was great! I heard lot of bad things when you are illegal citizen, not only in the US but everywhere in this planet, being illegal immigrants will never be easy. The film showed us, people who believe in american dreams and willing to take anything to get it. Some lose their live and the other lose their freedom. But i also see american people paranoia, Indonesian also subject to many terrorist act but you will never see people getting deported just because he writes an essay about terrorism, and he's under age. What would an under age teen understand about law? That's too much, and yes i believe it happens in the US, especially in the past, in you know who, presidential time. The paranoia that make people hate each other.