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Crossroads (2002)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:3
Rotten:20
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: A cliched and silly pop star vanity project, Crossroads is strictly for Britney fans only.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content and brief teen drinking
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 15, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $37,053,263
Synopsis: Pop sensation Britney Spears makes her film debut in this sparkling teen road-trip adventure. Spears stars as Lucy, the beautiful valedictorian of her small Georgia hometown who has lost touch with... Pop sensation Britney Spears makes her film debut in this sparkling teen road-trip adventure. Spears stars as Lucy, the beautiful valedictorian of her small Georgia hometown who has lost touch with her childhood best friends Mimi (Taryn Manning), a boyish trailer park sweetheart who happens to be pregnant, and Kit (Zoe Saldana) a luxury-obsessed overachiever who dreams of marrying her older boyfriend. Although it seems that they are all headed in separate directions, Mimi's planned cross-country trip to Los Angeles in hopes of securing a recording contract brings the old friends together for a life-altering adventure. Lucy's own dream of reuniting with her estranged mother (Kim Cattrall), who abandoned her and her auto mechanic father (Dan Aykroyd) when Lucy was only three, propels the normally cautious Lucy to take part and together they hit the road, chauffeured by Mimi's handsome loner friend Ben (Anson Mount). Their journey is plagued with many seemingly insurmountable difficulties, beginning with major car troubles that cost the girls all of their money to fix. However, they are able to raise more than enough money to pay for the repairs in a karaoke competition where Lucy (in Britney form) wows the crowd with a sexy rendition of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n Roll." As the young girls head towards Los Angeles in Ben's 1973 Buick convertible they face love, heartache, and loss while distancing themselves from childhood innocence in this heartwarming coming-of-age tale filled with plenty of moments for megastar Britney to shine. [More]
Starring: Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana, Dan Aykroyd
Starring: Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall, Justin Long, Anson Mount
Director: Tamra Davis
Director: Tamra Davis
Screenwriter: Shonda Rhimes
Producer: David Gale, Ann Carli
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for Crossroads
Davis directs the low-budget production with economy and a lack of surface flashiness that is pleasingly unpretentious.
The kind of movie that seems like a very extensive trailer for a music video coming soon to Total Request Live.
If you're not the target demographic ... this movie is one long chick-flick slog.
It does wonders to a critic to know that you could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come.
Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney.
Oops, she's really done it this time. That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel.
For anyone seeking a movie that captures the utter vapidity of the Britney Spears Experience, with all of her most annoying personal traits and uh-uh-uh vocal tics brought to the fore.
It cultivates not the illusion of wholesomeness, since no one's buying it, but the pretense of it. Yet examine the movie's message, and it's pretty insidious.
The movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it's at least watchable.
So mind-numbingly awful that you hope Britney won't do it one more time, as far as movies are concerned.
[Spears'] persona has been shamelessly worked into a thin fiction by screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, under the characterless direction of Tamra Davis.
We could have expected a little more human being, and a little less product.
I went to Crossroads expecting a glitzy bimbofest and got the bimbos but not the fest.
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