In a moment of clarity, Cole exempts Claire from completing the two months and arranges for her to get her green card in the mail. Authorities eventually confront Claire about the suspiciousness in her immigration paperwork, and she admits to the sexual arrangement she had with Cole and leaves the country “voluntarily”. Cole is arrested. His wife Denise Frankel adopts a little girl from Nigeria, who has already been in the detention center for several years.
Brogan has a colleague, Hamid Baraheri. His family disapproves of his sister’s having sex with Javier Pedroza, a married man. Encouraged by his father, Farid Baraheri (Hamid’s brother) plans to scare the couple, but things get out of hand: he shoots both of them, and goes to Hamid, who helps him hide the evidence. Brogan slowly suspects Hamid’s involvement as the film progresses.
Also, Javier Pedroza works in a copy shop and makes extra money by providing counterfeit immigration papers. Claire had previously paid him for false papers before she had made her arrangement with Cole. But when Javier was killed, the authorities discovered her documents among his belongings, leading the immigration team to examine Claire’s case more closely.
South Korean teenager Yong Kim is about to be naturalized with the rest of his family, but he has started to hang out with a bad crowd and ultimately participates in a convenience store robbery to “pop his cherry” with his gang. Hamid happens to be at the same convenience store and kills the other robbers but (due to his own guilt over his involvement in his sister’s death) lets Yong Kim go free.
Gavin Kossef, an atheist Jewish musician from the United Kingdom pretends to be a religious Jew in order to get a job at a Jewish school, which allows him to stay in the U.S. In a test in which he has to demonstrate his familiarity with the Jewish religion he does not perform properly, but a rabbi asked to assess it approves it because of his voice. After the test, in private, the rabbi requires the immigrant to take lessons from him to eliminate the deficiencies in his knowledge.
Production notes provided by The Weinstein Company.
Crossing Over
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Summer Bishil, Alice Eve, Alice Braga
Directed by: Wayne Kramer
Screenplay by: Wayne Kramer, Frank Marshall
Release Date: February 27, 2009
MPAA Rating: None.
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $3,030,259 (100.0%)
Foreign: —
Total: $3,030,259 (Worldwide)