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''Crossroads'' is a 2002 American
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film directed by
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, from a screenplay by
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. The film stars
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,
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,
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, and
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. Set in
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, its plot centers on three teenage girls on a cross-country road trip, as they find themselves and their friendship in the process. Development began in late 2000 when Spears created a concept that was later expanded by Rhimes. Principal filming began in March 2001, and encompassed over six months. ''Crossroads'' was produced by
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and released on February 15, 2002, in North America by
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, and was a box office success, grossing $61.1 million worldwide on a $10‒12 million budget. The film was panned by critics, though Spears' performance was praised. Spears's third studio album ''Britney'' (2001) was promoted as the soundtrack to the film, in addition to '' Crossroads (Music from the Major Motion Picture)''. As part of a promotional campaign for Spears' memoir '' The Woman in Me'', the movie was acquired by
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(via
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label, current holders of the former Zomba Recording Corporation / Jive Records' catalogue) who re-released it to theaters on October 23 and 25, 2023, alongside a special edition of the soundtrack.


Plot

As children growing up in a small
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town, Lucy, Kit, and Mimi bury a "wish box" and vow to dig it up on the night of their high school graduation. However, as the trio grows up, their friendship fades: Lucy becomes the introverted valedictorian, Kit becomes the most popular girl in school, and Mimi becomes an outcast from the trailer park facing
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. On the night of graduation, they reunite to dig up the "wish box", remembering their old wishes: Kit wanted to get married, Lucy wanted to find her mother who abandoned her, and Mimi wanted to travel to
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. Lucy and Kit try to convince Mimi, who is five months pregnant, not to go to
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to audition for a record company. Lucy’s secret dream was being a singer like Kit and her father wanted her go to medical school. However, they decide to go with her to Los Angeles the next morning. Kit is going to see her fiancé who is a student at
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(UCLA), and Lucy is going to find her mother in
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. Unbeknownst to her overbearing father Pete, Lucy, Kit, and Mimi depart in a yellow 1973
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convertible with Mimi's friend Ben. During the trip, the car breaks down in
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and, with little money, Mimi suggests that they sing karaoke at a
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bar for tips. At the bar, Mimi develops stage fright and is unable to sing. Lucy takes her place and is a hit, and the girls earn enough money to fix the car and continue on their way. While staying at a motel in
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, Kit tells Lucy and Mimi that she heard a rumor about Ben going to jail for killing a guy. Uneasy for most of the trip, the girls finally confront Ben about the rumor, who reveals that he actually went to jail for driving his stepsister across state lines without parental consent because his stepfather was abusing her. Lucy and Ben fall in love with each other, and the girls have their first honest conversation since they were children: Lucy reveals that her mother left her and her father when she was three years old, but believes that her mother wants to see her again. Kit, who was overweight as a child, reveals that her mother sent her to "fat camp" every summer until she reached her goal weight. Mimi mentions that her baby's father is not her ex-boyfriend Kurt, but a man who
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d her at a party, and that she is planning to put her baby up for adoption. In Tucson, Lucy finds her mother Caroline, who has remarried with two young sons and is unhappy to see her. Caroline reveals that Lucy was an
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and that she wants nothing to do with her, leaving Lucy heartbroken. At the motel, Ben consoles Lucy and impresses her by writing music to a poem she has written during the trip. Lucy then rejoins Kit, Mimi, and Ben, and they reach Los Angeles. One night, Kit takes Mimi with her to surprise her fiancé Dylan. Alone together in the motel, Lucy loses her
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to Ben. Kit and Mimi arrive at Dylan's apartment to find him cheating on Kit with another woman. She then realizes that it was Dylan who raped Mimi, and punches him in the face. While running away, Mimi falls down the stairs and loses her baby. In the hospital, Lucy and Kit console her as she comes to terms with her loss, having decided to keep her baby once they reached Los Angeles. Lucy calls her father to come take her, Kit, and Mimi back home, and Kit and Mimi tell her that she should go to the audition in Mimi's place. Lucy declines and prepares to leave with them and her father, but realizes that everything she has done has been to please her father instead of herself. Lucy tells her father to let her go, runs to Ben, and they kiss. She, Kit, and Mimi head to the audition with Ben and receive a standing ovation for their performance of her song, " I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman". The girls re-bury the "wish box" at a Los Angeles beach, deciding not to make any wishes for the future, but to focus on the present and their friendship.


Cast


Production

In early 2001, Spears said that she had plans to make her film debut. She and her team then created a concept for it, which was later developed by ''
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'' creator
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. Spears commented that she "talked to
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and told her what I wanted the movie to be about and she elaborated on it. It was my little project. When you do a movie, I think you have to be really passionate about it. I was having a lot of offers, but this is something my heart was into." A press conference was held during the Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale (MIDEM) in
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, on January 19, 2002, where Spears also premiered the film. Filming for ''Crossroads'' initiated in March 2001 in
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, Metairie,
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, and
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, near Spears' hometown. Due to the fact that Spears was also recording her third studio album along with the film's production, filming wrapped up after only six months. Additional scenes were filmed in
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. ''Crossroads'' had a total budget of $12 million; a relatively low budget by industry standards. According to the Louisiana Film and Video Commission, the film was originally titled ''What Friends Are For''. Spears described it as a teen movie that deals with real issues that normal teenagers live on a daily basis. She continued to explain the film's content, saying that it "is about this journey that the three of us best friends take, finding ourselves and what we want out of life and getting our friendship back. Friends are all you have at the end of the day. When your boyfriend breaks up with you, who do you call? Your girlfriend. I just love that message."
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, who plays one of Lucy's best friends from high school, thought that ''Crossroads'' is "like a road trip buddy movie for girls." Long also said that he was impressed by Spears' work ethic, commenting that "she could not have been more down to earth. She's the sweetest girl. After 10 minutes, I forgot she was a big pop star."
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revealed that before he took the role of Ben, he was on the set of the film '' City by the Sea'' with actor
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. De Niro saw Mount with the ''Crossroads'' script and encouraged Mount to take the role, running a few of Spears' lines with him.


Reception


Box office

''Crossroads'' was released in the United States on February 15, 2002. On its opening day, ''Crossroads'' grossed an estimated $5.2 million in 2,380 theaters, becoming the second highest-grossing film of the day. On the first weekend of its release, ''Crossroads'' placed second behind '' John Q.'', grossing an estimate of $14,527,187. By the second week, the film dropped a 52% on tickets sales, ranking at number five at the box office. ''Crossroads'' was a moderate financial success, grossing a total $37,191,304 in the United States. Worldwide, the film grossed a total of $61,141,030 until its close day, on May 9, 2002.


Critical response

On
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, the film has a 15% approval rating based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 4.10/10, with the consensus: "A cliched and silly pop star vanity project, ''Crossroads'' is strictly for Britney fans only."
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, which assigns a
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score, gave the film a 27 out of 100 based on 31 reviews from critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. Audiences surveyed by
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gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F. John Anderson of ''
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'' commented "Spears acquits herself as well as anyone might, in a movie as contrived and lazy as this one". Chris Kaltenbach of ''
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'' said, "go see ''Crossroads'' if you want to hear Britney sing or see her wear next-to-nothing. But otherwise, avoid this train wreck at all costs".
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of ''
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'' gave the film a positive review, commenting ''Crossroads'' "not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate ''Glitter,'' or any of
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's gummy pap in ''
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''". Jane Crowther of
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rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, applauded Cattrall and Aykroyd's interactions with the characters, and said that "Spears manages to come across on film as natural, endearing, and extremely likable". Robert K. Elder of the ''
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'' said "Spears delivers a performance with the same sincerity she invests into a Pepsi commercial, only this film contains twice the sugary calories", while ''
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'' writer Elizabeth Weitzman noted, "Here's what ''Crossroads'' does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot". Maitland McDonagh of ''
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'' commented that "the film's mealy-mouthed messages about feminine empowerment will almost certainly fall on deaf ears, since even 11-year-olds know Spears's power resides largely in her taut torso". Claudia Puig of ''
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'' considered it "less a movie than a mind-numbingly dull road trip", while ''
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'' reporter Ann Hornaday said, "not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney". Jane Dark of ''
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'' compared ''Crossroads'' to
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's ''
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'', saying, "you spend a lot of time wondering, 'Better or worse than ''Glitter''?' You think if the projectionist cranked the volume a little you could actually sort of get into this". The film was criticized for not promoting
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, to which Spears responded: "I think by the time my character, Lucy, decides to make love in the film the audience realizes she's responsible enough and hopefully did do that. There was a scene where I took a box of condoms out but they took that scene out because the movie was too long." In 2010, ''
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'' named it one of the top 10 worst chick flicks. In 2021, Pamela Hutchinson wrote a critical reassessment in ''
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'', noting that prior negative reviews had "recoiled at the film's savvy as a star vehicle – the way it builds up and reinforces Spears's commercial persona, from her virginity to her work ethic." Hutchinson argued "''Crossroads'' was designed to represent what Britney Spears meant to her young fans, a hand to hold through the minefield of growing up. That's why her endearing earnestness shines through every deliberately unironic scene."


Accolades


Home media

''Crossroads'' was released on
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and
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on July 23, 2002. It is out of print and has yet to be released as a
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version, or a DVD re-release. In October 2023, the film's director, Tamra Davis, confirmed that
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had acquired the film's distribution rights back from
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. Later, it was reported that
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had purchased worldwide streaming rights for the film and was made available to watch on February 15, 2024.


Soundtrack

''Crossroads (Music from the Major Motion Picture)'' features two songs by Spears: a
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version of her cover version of "
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" and a remix of "
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" by JS16. The release also includes tracks by
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,
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,
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and
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. A new, expanded version of the soundtrack was released in October 2023, which accompanied the film's theatrical rerelease. Spears's third studio album '' Britney'' (2001) contains three tracks that were used in ''Crossroads'': "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Overprotected", and " I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman". ''Britney'' was also promoted as the soundtrack to the movie.


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