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NUMBERS
Box Office: $37,053,263
VHS Rentals: $6,020,000
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CONSENSUS
A cliched and silly pop star vanity project, Crossroads is strictly for Britney fans only.
CAST & CREW
Britney Spears, Taryn Manning, Zoe Saldana
Directed by Tamra Davis
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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 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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, sexual content and brief teen drinking
RUNTIME
1 hour, 33 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 15, 2002
Video: Jul 23, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Drama, Pop Music, Romance, Road Trips, High School Friends, Teen Idols, Teenage Girls
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Crossroads Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Britney's performance cannot be faulted. Lucy's a dull girl, that's all."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Britney Spears’ phoniness is nothing compared to the movie’s contrived, lame screenplay and listless direction."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"A bizarre piece of work, with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy, rape and suspected murder"
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"What puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in Britney Spears' first movie."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Adults will wish the movie were less simplistic, obvious, clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized. But what are adults doing in the theater at all?"
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Lacking substance and soul, Crossroads comes up shorter than Britney's cutoffs."
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"If you're not a prepubescent girl, you'll be laughing at Britney Spears' movie-starring debut whenever it doesn't have you impatiently squinting at your watch."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Her fans walked out muttering words like "horrible" and "terrible," but had so much fun dissing the film that they didn't mind the ticket cost. In this case zero."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Even if Britney Spears is really cute, her movie is really bad."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
 "Tends to pile too many "serious issues" on its plate at times, yet remains fairly light, always entertaining, and smartly written."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"It is bad, but certainly not without merit as entertainment."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
"Crossroads feels like a teenybopper Ed Wood film, replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"An awful lot like one of [Spears'] music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and, worse, that you have to pay if you want to see it."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"An uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply, but those who loved Cool as Ice have at last found a worthy follow-up."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"A sadly predictable road movie...'Crossroads' isn't very good, but
it's not terrible either."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A non-Britney person might survive a screening with little harm done, except maybe for the last 15 minutes, which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"comes off like a rejected ABC Afterschool Special, freshened up by the dunce of a Screenwriting 101 class. ...Designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears, "Crossroads" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"Sure, Crossroads and Brit herself may be silly, superficial, and bubbly, but so what? She and the film are also fun, sexy, and playful."
-- Todd R. Ramlow, POPMATTERS
"Let's face it -- there aren't many reasons anyone would want to see Crossroads if they’re not big fans of teen pop kitten Britney Spears."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"Borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion."
-- Sean Piccoli, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"One can't shake the feeling that Crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for Britney's latest album."
-- Bill Pearis, CITYSEARCH
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ROTTEN 13%
Avg. Rating: 4.1/10 |
"The movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it's at least watchable."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"If you're not the target demographic ... this movie is one long chick-flick slog."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound, the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"She's not yet an actress, not quite a singer..."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"Plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Oops, she's really done it this time. That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"One of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from Ms. Spears."
-- Tom Maurstad, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"So mind-numbingly awful that you hope Britney won't do it one more time, as far as movies are concerned."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"We could have expected a little more human being, and a little less product."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"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."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Crossroads" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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