{"id":5167,"date":"2008-01-23T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2021-01-20T01:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:45:26","slug":"crossover-dreams-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5167","title":{"rendered":"Crossover Dreams (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I wanna get outta here&#8230; I&#8217;m <em>gonna<\/em> get outta here!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Crossover-Dreams-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Crossover-Dreams-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Crossover-Dreams-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Crossover-Dreams-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/Crossover-Dreams-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring salsa musician (Ruben Blades) in New York&#8217;s Spanish Harlem &#8220;crosses over&#8221; into mainstream music, only to find that he&#8217;s unwisely left behind everyone most important to him &#8212; including his loving girlfriend (Elizabeth Pena) and longtime musical partner (Shawn Elliott).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Latinos<\/li>\n<li>Musicians<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Rise-and-Fall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary&#8217;s review of director Leon Ichaso&#8217;s second indie film (his debut was 1979&#8217;s <em>El Super<\/em>) is spot-on: he notes that it &#8220;starts out nicely&#8221;, offering &#8220;original, quirky characters&#8221; and plenty of &#8220;wit and spirit&#8221;, but soon &#8220;turns into an unconvincing morality play full of situations and characters we&#8217;ve seen in countless other pictures&#8221;. Although real-life Panamanian singer Blades is an impressive, believable actor with estimable musical skills, we quickly lose our sympathy for him &#8212; and by the second half of the film, he&#8217;s no longer even performing on-screen. With that said, there are enough positive elements in <em>Crossover Dreams<\/em> to make it worth a look at least once, including good use of Spanish Harlem locales, a pulsating salsa soundtrack, and fine supporting performances; it&#8217;s too bad the cliched screenplay fails to offer these characters the type of nuanced story they deserve. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruben Blades as Rudy Veloz<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-blades2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-blades2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5169\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tom Signorelli in a bit part as a music agent\/drug dealer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-signorelli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-signorelli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5166\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Effective use of authentic Spanish Harlem locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-harlem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-harlem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5168\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A fabulous salsa soundtrack<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-music.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crossover-music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5165\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended for one-time viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0088968\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/03\/29\/movies\/crossover-dreams-with-salsa-beat.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/crossover-dreams-1985\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/crossover-dreams\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wanna get outta here&#8230; I&#8217;m gonna get outta here!&#8221; Synopsis: An aspiring salsa musician (Ruben Blades) in New York&#8217;s Spanish Harlem &#8220;crosses over&#8221; into mainstream music, only to find that he&#8217;s unwisely left behind everyone most important to him &#8212; including his loving girlfriend (Elizabeth Pena) and longtime musical partner (Shawn Elliott). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Latinos Musicians New York City Rise-and-Fall Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary&#8217;s review of director Leon Ichaso&#8217;s second indie film (his debut was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5167\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64645,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/64645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}