Once upon a time, Lucy (Britney Spears), Kit (Zoe Saldana), and Mimi (Taryn Manning) were best friends. They buried a box of their dreams and vowed to dig it up on their senior prom night. They have drifted apart over the years. Lucy is a bookworm valedictorian who pines for her absent mother and to be a normal teenager. Kit is the popular mean girl. She's planning to marry her high school boyfriend but he has been distant ever since going off to college. Mimi is pregnant desperate to audition for a record company in L.A. Lucy and Kit have a disappointing prom and join Mimi in digging up the box. They both have a mission and follow Mimi on her road trip in Ben (Anson Mount)'s car.Com'on, it's not that bad. Is it? Everybody trashes this for Spears. She doesn't fit the nerdy brains role. They could have at least given her a pair of glasses. She couldn't wait to get into a belly shirt. She's not that good as an actress but she's able to walk and talk. She does have good acting partners and I like the girls' frail friendship. Ben is an unnecessary extra and sometimes he sticks out. What's up with him angry at the girls driving? The story structure is fairly standard and this could have worked better. It's an early writing effort from Shonda Rhimes. It has her melodrama. I just don't buy that this is as bad as everybody claims.

It was a long time ago since I saw this and all I remember was how bored out of my mind I was having to watch this film in the cinema along with a cousin of mine who is a girl. For what I can recall as I vaguely remember it, the story was all over the place, actually it was more like a film about "nothing". You got these 3 friends (Britney included) going on a road trip together (I know I'm just reading off from the plot lines here) and then they come across this guy who is your typical handsome guy at which point is where the film becomes a load of nonsense with nothing interesting happening, this is where the film pretty much gives up trying to be a movie and goes into soap opera territory but is worse.What I actually find most baffling is that this film is supposed to be a "romantic comedy" film yet there was nothing in this film that was remotely funny. And Britney Spears thought she could have a good crack at movie acting, huh, I don't think so.Although I don't remember everything from the film since it was years ago since I last saw the film, but then again why would you want to remember an awful movie like this? Really bad movies such as this are best left buried away from the mind to be made forgotten forever.

Crossroads is the story of three lassies who leave their hometown and go out into the world to find themselves. It is truly a wonderful coming of age story for young women to watch. It is also one of Britney Spears' best works (besides her album My Prerogative). The movie also serves great importance as it is one of Shonda Rhimes' earlier works. Before there was TGIT there was Crossroads. I appreciate the movie for the story that it tells young women, that their friends are above all else the most important, as well as the historical importance it serves to show us what the early 2000s were like and what Shonda Rhimes was about before Grey's Anatomy. Bottom line, watch Crossroads. You will not regret it.

Three small-town Georgia girls bury a memory box, pledging to open it together when they are high school graduates. Eight years later, they meet to open the box, and bond over the contents. Pretty blonde Britney Spears (as Lucy Wagner) takes the lead as she, sassy homecoming queen Zoe Saldana (as Kit), and punky pregnant Taryn Manning (as Mimi) decide to drive to Los Angeles with dimpled stranger Anson Mount (as Ben Kimble), who they fear may be homicidal. But he is very good-looking...An 18-year-old virgin, Ms. Spears has neither "seen one" nor "touched one," until meeting Mr. Mount.Spears' two female friends share a shocking sexual connection. Spears gets the guys and underwear scenes, but the other cast members play the better parts. The sexy scenes are over early. The opening highlight features Spears' mouthing Madonna's "Open Your Heart" in her underwear. A little later, she appears in pink bra and panties, with boxer-clad Justin Long. There isn't much more to see. Begging your pardon, to those of you watching for performances and plot, my condolences.** Crossroads (2/11/02) Tamra Davis ~ Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning