Crossroads

DVD - 2004 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz.
A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby surround.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Pretentious Failure submitted by KidBlue on May 12, 2014, 11:53pm This movie has so much wrong with it. Much of the music is not blues. It has two many scenes with Joe Seneca posturing and talking about what the blues really is, and he really just lists stereotypes. In fact, blues stereotypes is what this movie is really all about. I found none of the three lead characters believable. The ending is predictable garishly filmed. There are too many names dropped. Having a character mention Son House or Sonny Boy Williamson does not make a character more believable.
As far as blues movies, even the Blues Brothers is better than this.

LANGUAGE OPTIONS
English dialogue, English or Japanese subtitles; closed-captioned.

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1404954686
9781404954687

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Carliner, Mark.
Hill, Walter, 1942-
Fusco, John.
Macchio, Ralph George, 1961-
Seneca, Joe.
Gertz, Jami.
Columbia Pictures.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Blues musicians -- Drama.
Guitarists -- Drama.
Runaways -- Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.