Crossing the Bridge movie storyline. An off-screen narrator, Mort Golden, takes us back to winter around 1975, the year he was 21. He and his two buddies, Tim and Danny, have a fateful trip over the bridge from Detroit into Canada. The three of them are going nowhere in life, although Mort has thoughts of being a writer, while his mom wants him to go to college.
He and his pals contemplate making a quick fortune transporting drugs over the border in their beat-up Buick, “the war wagon.” Mort’s also hopelessly in love with a girl he dated briefly a couple years before. With border inspectors, Tim’s temper, and Danny’s bottled up emotions, is there any way this can end well?
Crossing the Bridge is a 1992 American drama film starring Josh Charles, Stephen Baldwin and Jason Gedrick. The film was created by Mike Binder and loosely based on Binders’ friends during the late 1970s in the Detroit/Birmingham, MI area.
Much of the plot concerns the three friends driving into Canada as couriers in a drug deal. When returning to the United States at the Ambassador Bridge crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, the protagonists face possible capture by authorities.
Soundtrack
Smoke on the Water – Peter Himmelman
I’d Love to Change the World – Ten Years After
Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival
These Days – Jackson Browne
Love Song – Elton John
Bad Company – Bad Company
Locomotive Breath – Ian Anderson
The Shadow of Your Smile – Tony Bennett
Wild Thing – Jimi Hendrix
From the Beginning – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Til It Shines – Bob Seger
Impermanent Things – Peter Himmelman
Crossing the Bridge (1992)
Directed by: Mike Binder
Starring: Josh Charles, Jason Gedrick, Stephen Baldwin, Cheryl Pollak, Rita Taggart, Richard Edson, Ken Jenkins, Abraham Benrubi, David Schwimmer, Rana Haugen
Screenplay by: Mike Binder
Production Design by: Craig Stearns
Cinematography by: Newton Thomas Sigel
Film Editing by: Adam Weiss
Costume Design by: Carol Ramsey
Set Decoration by: Ellen Totleben
Art Direction by: Jack Ballance
Music by: Peter Himmelman
MPAA Rating: R for language and drug use.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: September 11, 1992
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