Product Description

THREE CHILDHOOD BEST FRIENDS, AND A GUY THEY JUST MET, TAKE A TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY, FINDING THEMSELVES AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN THE PROCESS.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9598 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Released on: 2002-07-23
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 93 minutes

Amazon.com
Pop idol Britney Spears stars in this sweet coming-of-age movie about three childhood friends who've grown apart, but find out they may still have a lot in common. After graduating from high school, Lucy (Spears), Kit (Zoe Saldana), and Mimi (Taryn Manning) decide to take a road trip to L.A. to audition for a record label. Along the way, there's a lot of heartbreak and female bonding (not to mention a lot of midriff-baring--in her first scene, Spears jumps on her bed in her underwear, singing along to a Madonna song), as each of the three girls learns more about herself and life. Crossroads could have been trite schmaltz, but the script has some grit and the direction is fresh and relaxed--and, most significantly, Spears is far more sympathetic and engaging than you might expect. Also featuring Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker
Britney Spears's début movie presents a delicate marketing problem: how do you turn a super-bland pop star into a human being without upsetting her fans? Answer: by letting Britney dance provocatively on her bed while also making her the class valedictorian and a virgin, by having her escape from her small town while making sure that she calls home at every pit stop between Georgia and Los Angeles, and so on. Will Britney become a movie star? Maybe, but, not to put too fine a point on it, there's something wrong with her face. In closeup, her eyes appear too widely spaced, her upper lip too soft, and her flesh seems coated with a lab-developed polymer that gives it the hue of a Peking duck. -David Denby
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