Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry (Keaton), who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, sinks into a deep depression. Lowry and her supportive husband (Chaykin) struggle to cope with this devastating loss. Lowry forms an unusual friendship with the first and only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker (Leigh), a friendship that puts great pressure on her marriage ...[Read Story ]
Richard Carle is listed by a modern source as an actor in this film, but he was not seen in the print. In the beginning of the film, Pons' character escapes her wedding in a non-supercharged 1936 Cord Phaeton. The Indiana-made car, which cost about $3,700 was rare even when new and exotic enough to look like it belonged in the movie which begins set in France.