Crossing Over

Bland multi-narrative melodrama about various U.S. immigration cases. Brit Gavin Kossef (Sturgess) and Aussie Claire Sheperd (Eve) have outstayed their visas; he keeps his status secret at his new job and she decides to trade sex with sleazy Cole Frankel (Liotta) for a chance at a green card. Meanwhile, Cole's wife Denise (Judd) is an immigration attorney who wants to adopt a Nigerian orphan. Ford's a good-guy immigration agent who takes a paternal interest in a young Mexican mother who's about to be deported and there's also a couple of subplots involving a Bangladeshi teenager writing a naive essay on terrorism and a Korean teen caught up in gang life. The coincidences seem forced and director Kramer wraps things up tidily--unlike real life.