Debbie Schlussel: "ICE, The Movie" Delayed Again
Readers know that I've been following the odyssey of the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) movie, "Crossing Over," or as I call it, "ICE, The Movie." It stars Harrison Ford and Sean "Jeff Spicoli" Penn. I've read the script, and I'm negatively impressed.
As I've noted, "Crossing Over" lies about ICE policy regarding detaining alien mothers and their children--a main premise of the movie simply isn't true. As I've also noted, makers of this movie eliminated a very accurate Muslim honor killing scene when Muslims whined about it. And finally, as I've noted, writer/director Wayne Kramer appears to have committed immigration fraud to get U.S. citizenship, since he is apparently a main character in the movie who commits the crime and since he claims he lived every step of the movie. When I first noted this, the director's and studio's lawyers sent me threatening letters (which didn't work).
Many readers--including ICE agents--have asked me when the movie is coming out, since it does not appear on the schedule anywhere, and when I last wrote about it, the movie was scheduled for the August cinematic cemetery, where all bad movies go to die a quick death.
Since then, the movie has been yet again moved to the end of October. The movie was originally set to debut last November, then December, then March, then April, then June, then July, then August. That's a bad sign when a movie keeps getting moved. It's also a bad sign when the movie doesn't even have a trailer or movie poster yet. I predict that this movie--IF it's ever released in movie theaters--will bomb.
Posted by Debbie on August 12, 2008 03:43 PM to Debbie Schlussel