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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The cross-country trip seems to take ''far'' longer than it really should to get from Georgia to the west coast. For instance, the girls travel for two and a half days from morning until night before they stop within walking distance of [[TheBigEasy New Orleans' French Quarter]] when the car suffers a breakdown. Even coming from as far east as Savannah, a trip of that length can be made in about 10-12 hours depending on the number of stops.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The cross-country trip seems to take ''far'' longer than it really should to get from Georgia to the west coast. For instance, the girls travel for two and a half days from morning until night (indicated by nighttime scenes set at two separate motels) before they stop within walking distance of [[TheBigEasy New Orleans' French Quarter]] when the car suffers a breakdown. Even coming from as far east as Savannah, a trip of that length can be made in about 10-12 hours depending on the number of stops.
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%%* CoolLoser: Lucy and Mimi are this.
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Not to be confused with the 1986 UrbanFantasy film of the same name starring Ralph Macchio.
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Not to be confused with the 1986 UrbanFantasy film [[Film/{{Crossroads}} of the same name name]] starring Ralph Macchio.
Creator/RalphMacchio.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Ben went to jail for taking his abused little step-sister across state lines (while he legally couldn't do as she wasn't related to him).
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ben went to jail for taking his abused little step-sister across state lines (which he legally couldn't do as she wasn't related to him).
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---> ''All I need is time, a moment that is mine, so while I'm in between,''
--->'' I'm not a girl, not yet a woman''
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'' I'm not a girl, not yet a woman''
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* AbusiveParents: Lucy's dad smothers her, her mother abandoned her, and Kit's mother criticised her for her appearance as a child and now resents her. Ben also takes his stepsister away from her physically abusive father.
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* AbusiveParents: Lucy's dad smothers her, her mother abandoned her, and Kit's mother criticised her for her appearance as a child and now resents her. Ben also takes his stepsister away from her physically abusive father. [[spoiler:To be fair to Lucy's father, he ultimately accepts her decision to pursue a musical career and is shown to be proud of her at her audition]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Ben went to jail for taking his abused little step-sister across state lines (legally (while he can't take a minor he isn't legally couldn't do as she wasn't related to across state lines).him).
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced to become a doctor, because her father thinks is best for her.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced to become a doctor, because her father thinks is it's best for her.
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* CluelessAesop: All that stuff about sex, its dangers, and its consequences ends up falling apart because it's a PG-13 film aimed at tweens, and the characters end up dodging all the worst possibilities. Mimi's ConvenientMiscarriage is probably the most infamous one.
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* CluelessAesop: All that stuff about sex, its dangers, and its consequences ends up falling apart because it's a PG-13 film aimed at tweens, and the characters end up dodging all the worst possibilities. Mimi's [[spoiler:Mimi's ConvenientMiscarriage is probably the most infamous one.one]].
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* CannotSpitItOut: Lucy's father closed offness when it comes to her mother going AWOL kicks off the plot.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Lucy's father being so closed offness off when it comes to her mother going AWOL kicks off the plot.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The possibility of an abortion never comes up, not even by implication, as a possible solution to the fact that both Mimi and her deadbeat boyfriend (even before [[spoiler:he is outed as a cheater]]) are obviously completely financially and emotionally unprepared for parenthood. [[spoiler:The whole thing is eventually rendered moot however, when Mimi suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: The possibility of an abortion never comes up, not even by implication, as a possible solution to the fact that both Mimi and her deadbeat boyfriend (even before [[spoiler:he [[spoiler:it's established that the boyfriend isn't the father and the real father is outed as a cheater]]) Kit's cheating fiancé]]) are obviously completely financially and emotionally unprepared for parenthood. [[spoiler:The whole thing is eventually rendered moot however, when Mimi suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage.]]ConvenientMiscarriage]].
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* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Lucy thinks her mom had this, but it is bitterly subverted when the woman bluntly tells her daughter she left because she just didn't want her.
* MyBelovedSmother: Kit's mom and Lucy's dad.
* MyBelovedSmother: Kit's mom and Lucy's dad.
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* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Lucy thinks her mom had this, but it [[spoiler:it is bitterly subverted when the woman bluntly tells her daughter she left because she just didn't want her.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Kit's mom and Lucy'sdad.dad each try to control their daughters' lives.
* MyBelovedSmother: Kit's mom and Lucy's
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: The cause of Mimi's pregnancy, and Kit's fiance is her rapist.]] Lucy is manhandled at a bar until Ben steps in, which comes just before [[spoiler: Mimi's admission]].
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: The cause of Mimi's pregnancy, and Kit's fiance is her rapist.]] rapist]]. Lucy is manhandled at a bar until Ben steps in, which comes just before [[spoiler: Mimi's admission]].
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* ShaggyDogStory: All three girls set out with a specific goal in mind; Lucy to reconnect with her mother who abandoned her, Kit to visit her fiance and Mimi to pursue a singing career. [[spoiler: Lucy's mother tells her she was a mistake and never wanted her, Kit discovers her fiance cheating and not only is Mimi upstaged by Lucy's superior voice, but she also loses her baby.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: All three girls set out with a specific goal in mind; Lucy to reconnect with her mother who abandoned her, Kit to visit her fiance and Mimi to pursue a singing career. [[spoiler: Lucy's mother tells her she was a mistake and never wanted her, Kit discovers her fiance fiancé cheating and not only is Mimi upstaged by Lucy's superior voice, but she also loses her baby.]]baby (although Mimi chose to give her audition to Lucy as she recognised that her friend was just the better singer)]]
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: It takes two and a half days of travel from morning until night to bring the girls from Georgia to within walking distance of [[TheBigEasy New Orleans' French Quarter]] before the car suffers a breakdown. Even coming from as far east as Savannah, a trip of that length can be made in about 10 hours.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: It takes The cross-country trip seems to take ''far'' longer than it really should to get from Georgia to the west coast. For instance, the girls travel for two and a half days of travel from morning until night to bring the girls from Georgia to before they stop within walking distance of [[TheBigEasy New Orleans' French Quarter]] before when the car suffers a breakdown. Even coming from as far east as Savannah, a trip of that length can be made in about 10 hours.10-12 hours depending on the number of stops.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: It takes two and a half days of travel from morning until night to bring the girls from Georgia to within walking distance of [[TheBigEasy New Orleans' French Quarter]] before the car suffers a breakdown. Even coming from as far east as Savannah, a trip of that length can be made in about 10 hours.
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%% * OverprotectiveDad: Lucy, to the nth degree.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Britney in her underwear, but also all of her singing scenes have some fanservice-y outfits. It has been suggested that her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]] should get its own credit in the film.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Britney in her underwear, but also all of her singing scenes have some fanservice-y outfits. It has been suggested that her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]] midriff should get its own credit in the film.
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* AlphaBitch: Kit, especially at the beginning.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Of the Dixie variation, y'all.
* AtTheCrossroads: And HOW x 4!
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Of the Dixie variation, y'all.
* AtTheCrossroads: And HOW x 4!
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%% * AlphaBitch: Kit, especially at the beginning.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Of the Dixie variation, y'all.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: And how for all those involved.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by the song title: "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman".
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* CoolLoser: Lucy and Mimi are this.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
** Lucy as the Realist
** Ben as Apathetic
** Mimi as Optimistic
** Kit as Conflicted
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Mimi is Sanguine
** Kit is Choleric
** Lucy is Melancholic
** Ben is Phlegmatic
** Lucy as the Realist
** Ben as Apathetic
** Mimi as Optimistic
** Kit as Conflicted
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* HollywoodNerd:
** Britney Spears playing a nerd, a damn cute one at that.
** Justin Long, who often played nerds at this point in his career, is undermined by a ShirtlessScene revealing his muscular arms, pecs, and ''six-pack''.
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** Justin Long, who often played nerds at this point in his career, is undermined by a ShirtlessScene revealing his muscular arms, pecs, and ''six-pack''.
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* PluckyGirl: Mimi.
* OverprotectiveDad: Lucy, to the nth degree.
* OverprotectiveDad: Lucy, to the nth degree.
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%% * OverprotectiveDad: Lucy, to the nth degree.
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* RebelliousSpirit: Mimi is depicted as being this at school.
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* TeenPregnancy: Mimi.
* TravelMontage: Being a travel movie, yes.
* TravelMontage: Being a travel movie, yes.
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%% * TravelMontage: Being a travel movie, yes.
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* TownGirls: Kit is girly, Mimi is a tomboy, Lucy is inbetween.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Britney in her underwear, but also all of her singing scenes have some fanservice-y outfits. It has been suggest that her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]] should get its own credit in the film.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Britney in her underwear, but also all of her singing scenes have some fanservice-y outfits. It has been suggest suggested that her [[BareYourMidriff midriff]] should get its own credit in the film.
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* HollywoodNerd: Britney Spears playing a nerd, a damn cute one at that.
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* HollywoodNerd: HollywoodNerd:
** Britney Spears playing a nerd, a damn cute one atthat.that.
** Justin Long, who often played nerds at this point in his career, is undermined by a ShirtlessScene revealing his muscular arms, pecs, and ''six-pack''.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Lucy's lab partner treats it all as this and it's played as this for Lucy at the end of the movie.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: TheMovie. Lucy is the only virgin amongst the three girls in the beginning and there's never any doubt that her coming of age story is going to involve her losing it. Lucy's lab partner treats it all as this and it's played as this for Lucy at the end of the movie.insists that a guy going to college a virgin will be ostracized.
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* WrenchWench: Lucy has surprising shades of this. Part of her HiddenDepths.
** Not really surprising considering her father is a mechanic with his own shop.
** Not really surprising considering her father is a mechanic with his own shop.
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* WrenchWench: Lucy has surprising shades of this. Part of her HiddenDepths.
** Not really surprising considering herLucy's father is a mechanic with his own shop.shop, so it isn't surprising that she has shades of this.
** Not really surprising considering her
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* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Lucy-Doctor or Singer, Mimi + Kit-return to hometown or settle in LA, Ben-continue relationship with Lucy or leave her be as she's younger than him.
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* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Lucy-Doctor or Singer, Mimi + Kit-return to hometown or settle in LA, LA with Lucy, Ben-continue relationship with Lucy or leave her be as because she's younger than him.
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* TheUnfavourite: Straight as you can get since Carolyne tells Lucy to her face that she never wanted to have her and that she was a mistake, abandoning her the moment she was born and still doesn't want her, only having Lucy because her father made Carolyne have her. She later had two sons to another man who she did not leave.
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* TheUnfavourite: Straight as you can get since Carolyne tells Lucy to her face that she never wanted to have her and that she was a mistake, abandoning her the moment Lucy when she was born only three years old and the women still doesn't want her, her. Telling Lucy she only having Lucy had her because her father made Carolyne have her.her do it. She later had two sons to another man who she did not leave.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is 18 and while Ben likely isn’t very much older than her. He can legally enter bars and he went to an adult jail for what was technically a crime and now has a criminal record.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is 18 and while Ben likely isn’t very that much older than her. He older, he can legally enter bars and he went to bars. He was also likely tried as an adult jail for what was technically a crime and now his “crime” so he also has a criminal record.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is 18 and while Ben likely isn’t that much he’s older than her. It is a little apparent. He can legally enter bars and he went to an adult jail for what was technically a crime and now has a criminal record.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is 18 and while Ben likely isn’t that very much he’s older than her. It is a little apparent.her. He can legally enter bars and he went to an adult jail for what was technically a crime and now has a criminal record.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is only 18 and while Ben likely isn’t that much he’s older than Lucy himself. He’s is old enough to legally enter a bar, has a criminal record and was in jail. That would freak out any parent if their kid wanted to date him.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is only 18 and while Ben likely isn’t that much he’s older than Lucy himself. He’s her. It is old enough to a little apparent. He can legally enter bars and he went to an adult jail for what was technically a bar, crime and now has a criminal record and was in jail. That would freak out any parent if their kid wanted to date him.record.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is only 18 but while Ben probably isn’t much he’s older, he’s at least old enough to get into bars. However it’s the fact he has a criminal record that puts Lucy’s dad off.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is only 18 but and while Ben probably likely isn’t that much he’s older, he’s at least older than Lucy himself. He’s is old enough to get into bars. However it’s the fact he legally enter a bar, has a criminal record that puts Lucy’s dad off.and was in jail. That would freak out any parent if their kid wanted to date him.
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: Kit's mom sent her to fat camp to become more attractive, but now resents that her daughter is more beautiful than she is.
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* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: Kit's mom sent her to fat camp to become more attractive, thinner but she now resents that her daughter is more beautiful than she is.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Played with the Lucy-Ben plot. Lucy is only 18 but while Ben probably isn’t much he’s older, he’s at least old enough to get into bars. However it’s the fact he has a criminal record that puts Lucy’s dad off.
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* MissingMom: Lucy.
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* MissingMom: Lucy.Lucy’s
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced to become a doctor, because her father thinks it’s for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced to become a doctor, because her father thinks it’s is best for her own good.her.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced into becoming a doctor by her father, apparently it’s for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced into becoming to become a doctor by doctor, because her father, apparently father thinks it’s for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced into becoming a doctor by her father, for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy feels forced into becoming a doctor by her father, apparently it’s for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy is forced into medical school to become a doctor by her father for her own good.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Lucy is feels forced into medical school to become becoming a doctor by her father father, for her own good.