The “Crossing Over” Trailer Starring Harrison Ford vs. The “Revolutionary Road” Trailer Starring Leonardo Di Caprio
WHICH OF THESE FILMS LOOKS LIKE IT IS OSCAR WORTHY?
WHICH ONE LOOKS MORE ENTERTAINING THAN THE OTHER?
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“Crossing Over” is a film starring Harrison Ford about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures. Crossing Over was written and directed by Wayne Kramer, himself an immigrant from South Africa.
“Crossing Over” is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of counter terrorism and the clash of cultures.
“Revolutionary Road” is a 2008 British/American drama film directed by Sam Mendes (”American Beauty”, “Jarhead” and “Road to Perdition”). The screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 26, 2008. This is the first movie since “Titanic” that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have starred in together.
The plot centers on the characters April and Frank Wheeler who are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job, and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career.
Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Crossing Over looks like a Crash re-write and Revolutionary Road looks like a weepy chick flick - I don’t hold much faith or enthusiasm for either film.