Storyline
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Directors
Cast
Steve Buscemi, Michael Jeter, John Turturro, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Albert Finney, John McConnell, Mike Starr, Sam Raimi, Gabriel Byrne, Lanny Flaherty, Olek Krupa, Danny Aiello III, Marcia Gay Harden, Jery Hewitt, Mario Todisco, Jon Polito, David Darlow, J.E. Freeman, Al Mancini, Richard Woods, Thomas Toner, Jeanette Kontomitras, Louis Charles Mounicou III, Helen Jolly, Hilda McLean, Monte Starr, Don Picard, Salvatore H. Tornabene, Kevin Dearie, Charles Ferrara, Esteban Fernandez, George Fernandez, Charles Gunning, Dave Drinkx, Robert LaBrosse, Carl Rooney, Jack Harris, John Schnauder Jr., Zolly Levin, Joey Ancona, Bill Raye, William Preston Robertson, MIchael P. Cahill
Trailer
Reviews
100
USA Today
Cold and cut to the bone, the film is a primer in screen virtuosity. Standard action film clichés, like a face getting hit with a chair, get turned inside out; both film and actors somehow manage to seem realistic and stylized at the same time. [21 Sept 1990, Life, p.6D]
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
A masterpiece, but of a unique kind... A gorgeously filmed, supremely well-acted, intricately written film noir about now.
83
Entertainment Weekly
If, however, you're looking for compelling characters, all the lights are blazing here but nobody's at home.
80
Crossing should be watched not because it's their finest achievement (that's still to come), but because the brothers are keeping things refreshingly different and building a career, their minds still very much fixed on originality.
80
Time
The Coens are artists too, and their cool dazzler is an elegy to a day when Hollywood could locate moral gravity in a genre film for grownups. [24 Sept 1990, p.83]
