Kramer's Crossing Over Agony - Sean Penn, Harvey Weinstein, Drama

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hollywood-elsewhere.com - 12/2/2008

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We all know about the disappearance of Sean Penn from Wayne Kramer's much-delayed Crossing Over (Weinstein Co., 2.9.09). Penn shot a couple of scenes as immigration cop Chris Farrell in the Weinstein Co. drama, but he's not in the trailer...

trailers.filmintuition.com - 11/26/2008

Crossing Over (2009)

Drama

Crossing Over

Sean Penn

Harrison Ford

Ray Liotta

Ashley Judd

Cliff Curtis

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:: The Playlist :: — ... Over" and there's a whole fiasco as to why. Directed by Wayne Kramer, it's a debacle of a story involving Harvey Weinstein and his notoriously oily ways and it's such a good controversy, we'd normally devote an entire post to it, but god, for the love of us, we can't get interested in this film in the least. However, if you wan to read another good Hollywood horror story, this is a good one. [HollywoodElsewhere] ...

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:: The Playlist :: — ... so much he asked for his small part to be excised from the film and the Weinstein's -- afraid to mess with stars they might need in the future -- obliged him much to the chagrin of the director Kramer. It comes out, oh... "coming soon," because TWC needs a few more months to pass by so audiences can forget this bad publicity and they can begin their marketing plan. ...

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Hollywood Elsewhere — Give Kramer A Break "I'm not saying that Crossing Over is a masterwork," I wrote on 1.31. "It's not. It uses a familiar strategy -- five or six story lines woven into a social-issue tapestry -- in an attempt to be an illegal-immigrant Traffic . But it's really Crash . Which, to some, may sound like damnation. But sitting through Crossing Over isn't hell. Far from it. Within the boundaries of its scheme and particularly given what Kramer had to deal with in post, it's not half bad. The bruises and abrasions show, but it has a certain integrity . You can feel the efforts of a strong impassioned director trying like hell to make it work ...