Crossroads

Name: Crossroads
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Music
Released: March 14, 1986
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Allan Arbus, Dennis Lipscomb, Harry Carey Jr., Jami Gertz, Joe Morton

1986

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 14, 1986 | TV-14

Starring: Allan Arbus, Dennis Lipscomb, Harry Carey Jr., Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Joe Seneca, John Hancock, Ralph Macchio, Robert Judd, Steve Vai

Summary: Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.

Director: Walter Hill

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Romance, Music

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 99 min

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Roger Ebert

Crossroads borrows so freely and is a reminder of so many other movies that it's a little startling, at the end, to realize how effective the movie is and how original it manages to feel despite all the plunderings. Read full review

Sheila Benson

Crossroads needs a leap of faith to swallow it whole, to buy its Faust-like premise of a musician's pact with the devil played against the realism of a contemporary road movie, but director Walter Hill lays out reasons enough to make us want to make that leap. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Working from a screenplay that drew on scriptwriter Fusco's experience as an itinerant young blues man, Hill and cinematographer Bailey perfectly capture the look and feel of the Mississippi Delta, heretofore little seen on film. Read full review

David Ansen

Crossroads is an uneasy hybrid. The script, by 26-year-old John Fusco, wants both to offer authentic homage to the great Delta musicians and to appeal to the teen market. [24 March 1986, p.77]

Walter Goodman

Unfortunately, the authentic music is betrayed by the final guitar competition, a kind of Karate Kid cacophony between Eugene and the devil's favorite, a punk rocker, in which souls are saved, but Mr. Cooder may have jeopardized his own. Read full review

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Seneca acquits himself very nicely, while director Walter Hill pulls of the expected professional mob, but he pushes so hard for pace that he skates right over the opportunities for thought that the subject calls for. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The first three-quarters of an hour...is junkily entertaining. but when they're on the road in the South, Willie turns into a curmudgeonly guardian angel, the boy starts learning lessons about life, and the picture is contemptible.

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Bearman64

Mar 30, 2022

You do not like this **** movie. You’re a **** idiot. If you’re a music lover you should love this movie. Steve Vai and Stevie Ray Vaughan play the guitar on this movie. If you love this I love you if you don’t **** you all

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