Across the Line (2000)

20001h 39mdir. Martin SpottlUnited StatesWestern filmpolitical thriller film

With Brad Johnson, Sigal Erez, Brian Bloom, Adrienne Barbeau, J. C. Quinn

Directed by Martin Spottl

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Across the Line is a 2000 American Neo-Western film directed by Martin Spottl and starring Brad Johnson and Sigal Erez. Johnson plays a small-town Texas sheriff who falls for a Latina refugee (Erez) who witnessed a murder on the Mexican border. Across the Line portrays refugees in a generally positive light and dramatizes their motivations and problems from a sympathetic point of view. In La Opinion Jean Rodriguez Flores wrote, "The film Across the Line isn't just about the difficulties of crossing illegally into the United States, but it also reflects the tragedy of hundreds of people who are forced to leave their families for the "promised land." Some critics praised the film for its emoti

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