Crossroads Movie Review 2002

Underwhelming teen buddy road pic has pop tart Spears debut as Lucy, a virginal, small-town high school senior who hits the road to L.A. with childhood buds Kit (Saldana) and Mimi (Manning), with depressing results. Lucy's searching for her real mom (Cattrall); Kit, a no-good boyfriend; and Mimi trying to get to an open audition as a singer. Convenient cute love interest for Lucy is driver Ben (Mount), who may harbor a dangerous secret. Most laughable scene features Lucy scribbling "poetry" (actually lyrics to one of her soundtrack songs) while Ben "composes" the music for it. Spears is likeable and harmless while Manning is the real stand-out. One notch up from "Glitter," quality competed with quantity (of wardrobe) as lowest priority.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 94 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Road Trip, Female Bonding, Pregnant Pauses, Karaoke

Screenplay

Shonda Rhimes

Cast

Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana, Anson Mount, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Long, Beverly Johnson, Kool Moe Dee, Richard Voll

Cinematography

Eric Alan Edwards

Director

Tamra Davis

Music

Trevor Jones

Other

Susumu Tokunow, Daniel Carlin, Melissa Kent, Barry Kingston, Wendy Schecter, Waldemar Kalinowski

Producer

Ann Carli, MTV Films, Diana Phillips, Paramount Pictures

Awards

Golden Raspberries 2002: Worst Actress (Spears), Worst Song ("I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman").