Despite its homoerotic title, “I Love You, Man,” is not a tale of two men in love. No it’s actually a tale of two men in friend. It stars Paul Rudd as a male-challenged pussy who’s needs a best man for his wedding to Rashida Jones. He finds a bff in slovenly and wild Jason Segel, but their budding “bromance” actually causes problems for his impending nuptials. It comes out March 20 and will premiere at SXSW where there will be panels n’ shit.
“Crossing Over” on the other hand is the Wayne Kramer-directed, Weinstein-bungled, “Crash”-like L.A. ethno drama about intersecting lives that touch upon the lives of illegal aliens. See the posters? Lanes intersecting. Colors of America (they don’t run). Get it? It stars Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess (“Across The Universe”), Ray Liotta and Sean Penn. Oh wait, no Sean Penn, that’s right, because he hated the movie so much he asked for his small part to be excised from the film and the Weinstein’s — afraid to mess with stars they might need in the future — obliged him much to the chagrin of the director Kramer. It comes out, oh… “coming soon,” because TWC needs a few more months to pass by so audiences can forget this bad publicity and they can begin their marketing plan.
Why is Harrison Ford starring in a drama like this that doesn’t present him as the dashing hero? Presumably its because he still regrets dropping out of the Michael Douglas’ part in Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning “Traffic” — a story with similarly multi-tiered and overlapping threads that is likely infinitely better than this could hope to be. As you were.