Crossing Over, available today on DVD, isn't a movie about ghosts. No suck luck. It's a turgid, sprawling, heavy-handed, facile yarn about immigration, told through multiple plot lines in the tradition of Crash. Harrison Ford plays an immigration agent with a heart of gold and a one-syllable-at-a-time mastery of Spanish every bit as convincing as his Russian accent in K-19: The Widowmaker.

One of the many plots involves a Korean family in which the older son is taking up with gangs. We first meet the boy in the idyllic innocence of his home life, playing split-screen Project Gotham Racing 2 with his younger brother. If you look closely, it looks like the younger brother gets a lousy car and an older Xbox contoller. That's what little brothers are for, after all. Then the older brother then gets pressed into service by the gangbangers to go on an armed robbery. Drama ensues.

It's a bit surprising that Project Gotham Racing 2 actually gets a couple of seconds of screen time in a full-frame shot of gameplay. I presume the director wanted to establish that the boy was playing a non-violent videogame to contrast his home life to the violence of gang life.