Dreams change. Friends are forever.
"It was something I was looking to do. I was looking at a bunch of different scripts, but this was the one that really caught my eye. It's just really heartfelt. I saw it for the first time the other day and I was really, really excited. It was bizarre seeing yourself on the big screen! I was watching it like, "Oh, my gosh!" I cried in it. It was so weird when I was watching it ... I'm not me. I'm not Britney Spears. I'm this dorky girl named Lucy. I don't have much make-up on, and I'm not really glamorous. It was just bizarre to see me playing someone else. I got so lost in the character. It's a teen movie, but it's talking about real issues that teenagers deal with all the time. One of the girls has an eating disorder. One of the girls was date-raped. I always want to please my father. I want to do what he wants me to do when I should just do what makes me happy. The whole movie is about this journey that the three 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. I do not find any similarities between me and Lucy, they are different, but there are some things that are similar. Lucy is very naive. She's very dorky. I hope I'm not that dorky, but Britney keeps to herself a lot. She writes in her journal a lot. I do that, too." - Britney Spears, 2002.
Genre: Comedy, Drama;
World Premiere: February 15, 2002;
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2003;
Runtime: 93 minutes;
Tagline: "Dreams change. Friends are forever";
Working Titles: "What Are Friends For", "Going On The Road" (rare);
Also Known As: "Not a Girl";
Production Budget: $12 million;
Domestic Box office: $37,188,667;
Foreign Box office: $23,949,726;
Rating: PG-13 - sexual content and brief teen drinking;
Production: Zomba Films, MTV Films, Jive Records;
Studios: Paramount Pictures;
Main Soundtrack: Britney Spears - "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman";
Filming Started: March 21, 2001;
Filming Finished: May 10, 2001;
Filming Locations: California and Louisiana.
Full Cast:
Britney Spears ("Austin Powers in Goldmember," "Pauly Shore is Dead", "Brave New Girl") - Lucy Wagner;
Zoe Saldana ("Center Stage", "Get Over It!," "Guess Who," "Snipes," "Drumline," "Dirty Deeds," "Premium," "Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl," "The Terminal," "Haven," "Constellation") - Kit;
Taryn Manning ("8 Mile," "Crazy/Beautiful," "Hustle & Flow," "Cold Mountain," "White Oleander," "A Lot Like Love," "Dandelion," "The Breed") - Mimi;
Anson Mount ("Urban Legends: Final Cut", "City by the Sea," "Boiler Room," "Tully," "The Warrior Class," "The Battle of Shaker Heights," "In Her Shoes") - Ben;
Dan Aykroyd ("The Rutles," "1941," "The Blues Brothers," "It Came from Hollywood," "Twilight Zone: The Movie," "Doctor Detroit," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Spies Like Us," "Dragnet," "The Couch Trip," "The Great Outdoors," "My Stepmother Is an Alien," "50 First Dates," "Bright Young Things," "Christmas with the Kranks," "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion," "Loose Cannons," "My Girl," "My Girl 2," "Sneakers," "Chaplin," "Coneheads," "Canadian Bacon," "Exit to Eden," "Getting Away with Murder," "Tommy Boy," "My Fellow Americans," "Celtic Pride," "Sgt. Bilko," "Grosse Pointe Blank," "Dying to Get Rich," "Blues Brothers 2000," "Diamonds," "Loser," "Stardom," "The House of Mirth," "Earth Vs. The Spider," "Ghostbusters," "Ghostbusters 2," "Feeling Minnesota," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," "Pearl Harbor," "Trading Places," "Evolution," "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion," "Shortcut to Happiness," "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry") - Pete Wagner;
Kim Cattrall ("Tribute," "Ticket to Heaven," "Hold-Up," "City Limits," "Turk 182!" "Mannequin" "Masquerade," "Midnight Crossing," "Good Night, Michelangelo," "Honeymoon Academy," "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "Miracle in the Wilderness," "Running Delilah," "Double Vision," "Split Second," "Breaking Point," "Above Suspicion," "Live Nude Girls," "Every Woman's Dream," "Unforgettable," "Where Truth Lies," "Invasion," "Exception to the Rule," "Sex and the City", "The Police Academy", "Big Trouble In Little China," "Ice Princess," "Modern Vampires," "Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country" "Creature," "36 Hours to Die," "Baby Geniuses," "15 Minutes," "The Tiger's Tail," "Snow Cake," "Shortcut to Happiness") - Caroline;
Justin Long ("Galaxy Quest," "Happy Campers," "Jeepers Creepers", "Jeepers Creepers 2", "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Herbie: Fully Loaded," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," "Dreamland," "Waiting..." "The Break-Up," "Accepted," "Idiocracy," "Hair High,"Live Free or Die Hard,") - Henry;
Beverly Johnson ("How to Be a Player," "True Vengeance," "The Meteor Man," "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon," "Ashanti") - Kit's Mother;
Bahni Turpin ("Brokedown Palace," "Getting In," "Rain Without Thunder," "The Saint of Fort Washington," "Malcolm X," "Daughters of the Dust") - Ms. Jenson;
Kool Moe Dee ("Beat Street," "Strapped," "Panther," "Storm Trooper," "Gang Related," "Cypress Edge," "Brother," "Out Kold," "Jackpot," "The New Guy") - Bar Owner;
Richard Voll ("Nailed", "Unwed Father") - Dylan;
David "Gruber" Allen ("Off the Lip") - Bar Patron
Jamie Lynn Spears ("Zoe-101", "All That") - Young Lucy.
Dajine Colon - Young Kit;
Crystal Milton - Young Mimi;
Brandon Henschel ("13 Going On 30", "Starsky & Hutch", "From Justin to Kelly", "Gigli", "Looney Tunes: Back in Action", "Looney Tunes: Back in Action", "The Country Bears") - guy in bar;
Pippi B - Dylan's other woman;
Kyle Davis ("Catch Me If You Can", "Resurrection Mary", "The Hitcher") - high scholl burnout;
Celina Belizan ("The Killing School") - Kit's ?riend;
Shonda Farr ("Planet Of The Apes", "Grind") - Kit's friend;
Ritchie Montgomery ("The Last Lullaby", "Cleaner", "R.S.V.P.", "Monster in The Closet", "South of Heaven, West of Hell", "Monster's Ball", "Catch Me If You Can", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Glory Road", "Deja Vu", "Come Early Morning", "Premonition") - customer;
Janet May ("Boiling Point") - Annie;
Seth Romatelli - talent organizer;
Jesse Camp - audition applicant;
The Unknowns - audition band;
Bowling for Soup - special music guest.
Crew:
Director - Tamra Davis;
Producer - Ann Carli;
Executive Producer - Clive Calder;
Executive Producer - David Gale;
Executive Producer - Johnny Wright;
Executive Producer - Larry Rudolph;
Executive Producer - Van Toffler;
Screenwriter - Shonda Rhimes;
Art Director - Barry Kingston;
Musical Direction - Daniel Allan Carlin;
Cinematographer - Eric Alan Edwards;
Set Designer - Florence Fellman;
Set Decorator - Florence Fellman;
Co-producer - Jonathan McHugh, Robert Lee;
Casting - Justine Baddeley, Kim Davis-Wagner;
Editor - Melissa Kent;
First Assistant Director - Robert Lorenz;
Sound Designer - Susumu Tokunow;
Music Editor - Terry Wilson;
Composer - Trevor Jones;
Production Designer - Waldemar Kalinowski;
Costume Designer - Wendy Schecter.
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, a boyish trailer park sweetheart who happens to be pregnant, and Kit a luxury-obsessed overachiever who dreams of marrying her older boyfriend. Although it seems that they are all headed in separate directions, Mimi's planned cross-country trip to Los Angeles in hopes of securing a recording contract brings the old friends together for a life-altering adventure. Lucy's own dream of reuniting with her estranged mother, who abandoned her and her auto mechanic father when Lucy was only three, propels the normally cautious Lucy to take part and together they hit the road, chauffeured by Mimi's handsome loner friend Ben. Their journey is plagued with many seemingly insurmountable difficulties, beginning with major car troubles that cost the girls all of their money to fix. However, they are able to raise more than enough money to pay for the repairs in a karaoke competition where Lucy wows the crowd with a sexy rendition of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n Roll." As the young girls head towards Los Angeles in Ben's 1973 Buick convertible they face love, heartache, and loss while distancing themselves from childhood innocence in this heartwarming coming-of-age tale filled with plenty of moments for megastar Lucy to shine.
"Crossroads" Songs:
- "Open Your Heart" - Madonna;
- "Suckerpunch" - Bowling For Soup;
- "My Greatest Day" - Bowling For Soup;
- "You And Me" - Bowling For Soup;
- "Lipstick & Bruises" - Lit;
- "Rise" - The Cult;
- "Bye, Bye, Bye" - 'N Sync;
- "How I Could Just Kill a Man" - Anti Matter;
- "Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye;
- "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet;
- "I Ran" - Knox Hughes & Sidney James;
- "I Love Rock And Roll" - Britney Spears;
- "Shake Ya Ass" - Mystikal;
- "Crazy Love" - Boomkat;
- "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" - Shania Twain;
- "Follow The Light" - Travis;
- "Unforgetful You" - Jars Of Clay;
- "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" - Britney Spears;
- "If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow;
- "So Have I For You" - Nikka Costa;
- "Overprotected" - Britney Spears;
Deleted Scenes:
- At the very beginning of the movie, there was a scene where Lucy did actually open a box of condoms, which they took out because the movie was too long;
- Three girls pull a flash-and-run in New Orleans, knocking on hotel doors and flashing their breasts (we don't get to see nudity, but the scene is racy and incredibly cute);
- Justin Long tries to persuade Britney to sleep with him with a slew of lame suggestions like, "You won't feel a thing..." or "Can I pay you?" or "Let's take pictures".
- When Ben driving his car, Lucy is not sleeping at the backseat. She is spying and listening to his conversation with Kit, who tries to flirt with Ben;
- In the hotel girls did a pillow fight;
- After the meeting with her mom, Lucy tells girls she's going to call her father to pick her. Suddenly she changes her mind and continues trip;
- A little scene with conversation of Lucy and Kit after performing "I Love Rock 'n' Roll";
Nominations:
- "2002 MTV Movie Awards" - Best Dressed;
- "2002 MTV Movie Awards" - Breakthrough Female Performance;
- "2002 Teen Choice Awards" - Choice Actress;
- "2002 Teen Choice Awards" - Choice Chemistry (Britney Spears and Anson Mount);
Awards:
- "2003 Golden Raspberry Awards" - Worst Actress;
- "2003 Golden Raspberry Awards" - Worst Song ("I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman").
Facts:
- Britney had input into the casting of the leading man, choosing Anson Mount;
- Britney has chosen to open the movie singing Madonna's "Open Your Heart";
- They used a 1974 yellow convertible Cutlass in the movie;
- During filming process Britney worked with an acting coach;
- Britney personally called Dan Aykroyd to ask him to play her father;
- When Lucy's Dad is talking to her in the hospital, a picture of Britney Spears can be seen on a copy of USA Today that a man is reading in the waiting room;
- No Coca-Cola products are ever used. Instead, Pepsi products are featured prominently, e.g. Mimi drinks from a Pepsi can in the hotel room after their karaoke win;
- At one point in the movie, the girls sing "Bye Bye Bye," which was a hit song by N'Sync. This was an inside joke referencing the well-publicized romance between N'Sync member Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears;
- Ben's car is a Buick Skylark custom convertible;
- Dan Aykroyd created a detailed back-story for his character and his life in the navy. He even had a friend draw a navy tattoo on his arm, which can be seen in the scene where he is working on the car in the garage;
- Anson Mount threw up after the scene in the diner;
- During the celebration scene in hotel room in New Orleans, the song that is playing on the radio which the girls danced to is entitled "Crazy Love" by Boomkat, A.K.A. Taryn Manning;
- The pictures in Lucy's locket are actual pictures of Britney Spears when she was younger;
- Lucy's last name comes from casting director Kim Davis-Wagner;
- Anson Mount was originally reluctant to play Ben, but was encouraged by Robert De Niro, with whom he was working at the time on City by the Sea (2002), who turned out to be a huge Spears fan. They went over scenes on break from "Sea", with Mount reading his role and De Niro reading Britney's;
- When Lucy gets out of the shower in the first hotel room, a bottle of Herbal Essences shampoo is visible inside the shower. Britney Spears endorsed Herbal Essences shampoo;
- Anson stopped the car during filming to pick up 2 cute puppies on the road;
- The band Bowling for Soup is playing at the party the group attends;
- The Britney Spears songs in the film all went on to become singles and were featured on her third album, "Britney", which was released shortly before the film;
- "Crossroads" is one of the most highest grossing movies in Japan, due to Britney's popularity there;
