Product Description
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The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on
their feet, and the court is alive with fast-paced razzle-dazzle
basketball. These players don't play for a school or a pro team.
They play for the street and it's underground...way underground.
Tech (Anthony Mackie, Freedomland, She Hate Me) and Cruise
(Wesley Jonathan, Roll Bounce) are two best friends with mad
streetballing skills. They light up the court with electrifying
moves and spectacular dunks. But off the court their goals
couldn't be more different. Tech dreams of going to the NBA and
winning a streetball game against his conceited archrival Jewelz
(Phillip "Hot Sauce" Champion). Cruise, with the natural talent
to be an NBA star, wants to use his college basketball
scholarship to become a doctor rather than give in to the lure of
former sports agent Vaughn (Wayne Brady), who wants him to go
pro. CROSSOVER is a story of friendship and getting crossed,
where true warriors play be their own rules and have
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Marketing aside, Crossover is more concerned with off-court
melodrama than on-court action. Tech (Anthony Mackie, Half
Nelson) and Noah (Wesley Jonathan, Roll Bounce) are best friends
and streetball stars. Their base of operations is the Detroit of
8 Mile and Four Brothers. Tech, who has a record, just wants to
get his GED and make a decent living, while Noah plans to use his
college scholarship to become a doctor. Their lives take a turn
when Vaughn (Wayne Brady in a rare dramatic turn), a sports
agent-turned-promoter, leans on Noah to defer his dream and turn
pro. Vaughn pays his b-ball team to play, but that doesn't mean,
of course, that he actually cares about his players. To him, it's
business. Along the way, Tech gets involved with Eboni (promising
newcomer Alecia Fears) and Noah with her social-climbing friend,
Vanessa (America's Next Top Model Eva Pigford, who should
probably stick with the catwalk), who used to go with their
arch-rival Jewelz (real-life streetball player Phillip "Hot
Sauce" Champion). Just as the movie questions whether the men's
friendship is built to last, it questions whether their romantic
entanglements are the real deal. Writer/director Preston A.
Whitmore II shoots Crossover like a rap video. The
post-production effects are flashy, but there isn't a lot of
substance behind the style. Mackie and Jonathan, however, get the
job done. The film may be formulaic, but their natural charisma
makes it worth watching. Just be forewarned that there isn't much
roundball playing going on here. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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