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- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
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.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: John Fusco
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
- 1986
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 39 m
Crossroads
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8.2
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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.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: John Fusco
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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25% Mixed
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25% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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.
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.
You don't find many teen films about blues singers. You find hardly any about characters who don't smirk for 90 minutes before stumbling onto the meaning of life in the final passages. In Crossroads, it's the absences that are most refreshing. [14 March 1986, p.D1]
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]
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.
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.
A misbegotten mishmash. [14 March 1986, p.27]
User Score
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Based on 5 User Ratings
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 User Ratings
8.2
80% Positive
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures
Release Date Mar 14, 1986
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
Tagline 'The Kid' keeps the legend alive....
Awards
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
