Trivia / Crossroads (2002)

• Actor Allusion: A bottle of Herbal Essences can be seen as Lucy gets out of the shower. Britney Spears endorses Herbal Essences.
• Blooper: When the three girls are partying in the Louisiana Hotel Room, Lucy can be heard saying "Zoe" instead of Kit.
• Celebrity Paradox: When Lucy's dad is talking to her in the hospital, a copy of USA Today with Britney Spears on the cover can be seen.
• Creator Backlash: In later years, Britney Spears admitted that she didn't put enough effort into learning to act and thought that she could just show up on-set and essentially play herself, which ended up hurting the film. However, in The Woman In Me she actually says the opposite is true, that she was trying so hard to become Lucy that she didn't even know who she was anymore and had only snapped out of it a few months after filming.
  • This trope is averted by writer Shonda Rhimes; while she might not consider it a high point for her career, she's also defended this film against its detractors and said that the critics "didn't get it."
• Creator In-Joke: The girls sing "Bye Bye Bye" at one point - a song by N Sync. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake had dated.
• Creator Killer: In addition to torpedoing Britney Spears as both an actress and film producer from the get-go, the film also wrecked the career of director Tamra Davis, who hasn't directed a single theatrically-released film — aside from a few self-produced documentaries — in the years since, and has been working almost entirely in television. Averted, however, by screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, whose career wasn't harmed in the slightest by working on this film.
• Dawson Casting:
  • Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning were twenty-two playing girls who just graduated high school. Britney Spears by contrast was the same age as Lucy.
  • Anson Mount may have been an example of this. He was about thirty when this film was shot, playing a character who appears to be in his early-to-mid-twenties.
• Fake American: Both Lucy's mother and her father are played by Canadians (Kim Cattrall and Dan Aykroyd).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This became one of the highest grossing movies in Japan - thanks to the popularity of Britney Spears over there.
• Hey, It's That Place!: That is indeed the same hospital used in Scrubs.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The movie was for the longest time not available on any streaming services and hadn't been reprinted on DVD for nearly twenty years, which made it a bit tough to find legally. However it did return in theaters from October 23-25 2023 to promote Britney's memoir The Woman In Me and it is now available to stream on Netflix.
• Product Placement: In addition to Herbal Essences above, Pepsi is featured prominently in the film. Britney Spears of course endorses that too.
• Real-Life Relative: Jamie Lyn Spears, Britney's little sister, plays the young Lucy in the film's prologue.
• Star-Derailing Role: Granted, odds are Britney Spears' acting career wouldn't have gone anywhere anyway, due to her taking time out to start a family and then her well-documented personal problems, but the dismal reception of the film and her having been involved in its production at such a high level very firmly put the skids on her attempt to break into film.

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