Britney Spears is Lucy, just your average high school lass, with an over bearing dad and a yearning ambition to become a musician. One night just before she is due to graduate the pressure becomes too much and she sets off on a road trip of discovery and hope with her two best friends. Crossroads is not a bad debut for the queen of pop in waiting, and though I'd be hard pressed to recommend it, that's probably got more to do with my embittered decrepitude than the watchability of this teen drama find out more...

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Josh's best buddy is also his childhood sweetheart, and as they depart for their different colleges they vow that nothing will come between them, but unfortunately for Josh he has sex with a fellow student and then manages to get the video evidence mailed to said love of his life. 'Road Trip' folows our hero and his buddies on a desperate 1,800 mile journey to beat the postman. Daft? Yes. Familiar? Yup... but it's genuinely funny and has a good heart, so head and shoulders above most of the comp find out more...

Reiner's splendidly confident, witty teenage variation on 'It Happened One Night' focuses on two students hitching across the States through rainstorms, starvation and show tunes. He's a libidinous layabout, who inadvertently dropped in to college, and she's an uptight goody-goody who believes spontaneity has its time and its place. There's plenty of mileage in this pairing, even if the movie isn't going anywhere unexpected. It now looks like a dry run for 'When Harry Met Sally' and some of the find out more...