Crossing the Bridge

Sep 11, 1992

1h 43m

★ 5.6

Every day you make a million decisions. But it only takes one to change your life forever...

Overview

A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; instead of smuggling weed from Canada to Detroit, which they'd expected, the threesome's forced to traffic a huge stash of heroin.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures

Outlaw Productions

Crossing the Bridge Trailers

Cast

Mort Golden

Josh Charles

Tim Reese

Jason Gedrick

Danny Morgan

Stephen Baldwin

Carol Brockton

Cheryl Pollak

Kate Golden

Rita Taggart

Manny Goldfarb

Hy Anzell

Mitchell

Richard Edson

Lou Morgan

Ken Jenkins

Rinny

Abraham Benrubi

John Anderson

David Schwimmer

Baldy

Bob Nickman

Smiling Jack

James Krag

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