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Crossroads (2002)

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Reviews Counted:102

Fresh:15

Rotten:87

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: A cliched and silly pop star vanity project, Crossroads is strictly for Britney fans only.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

US 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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12/30/06
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Naive and amateurish in both the negative and positive sense of these terms, Crossroads provides a disappointing showcase for pop icon and youth symbol Britney Spears, who pretends to be the new-retro Sandra Dee.

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06/04/06
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04/07/03
Jeremy Heilman
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Spears's technique indicates she's a graduate of the Brady Bunch Acting Academy...

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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Dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.

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01/20/03
Chuck Wilson
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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Within 20 minutes of this incongruous baloney, I knew I'd stumbled upon a potential Razzie.

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10/02/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
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I never looked at my watch so often during a movie.

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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

A cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains...Crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential.

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Mark Palermo
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

Musically, Britney is as talented as Samantha Foxx, and her acting is less textured than Lance Bass'.

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06/10/02
Stephen Himes
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