Crossroads (2002)Movies

Movies from Film Forum, 02/21/02Last year's cinematic disaster Glitter probably persuaded some pop stars to think twice before trying their hand at movie stardom. But this year made a success story out of Mandy Moore's breakthrough in A Walk to Remember, and now the reigning queen of teen-lust and superficial, materialistic pop—Britney Spears—has a movie of her own. In it she plays a singing, dancing, scantily clad … valedictorian? This could bring new meaning to the term "suspension of disbelief."Crossroads follows the story of three teenage girls who revisit the dreams they had back when they were ten years old. They decide it's time to fulfill those dreams, and thus a road trip is in order. Britney Spears plays the academic one, and so, of course, she spends a lot of...