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Divorced mom Tracy Cross raises her 12-year-old son, Christopher, in [[Key West, Florida|Key West]] in 1969 around the time of the [[Apollo 11]] moon landing. |
Divorced mom Tracy Cross raises her 12-year-old son, Christopher, in [[Key West, Florida|Key West]] in 1969 around the time of the [[Apollo 11]] moon landing. Chris narrates the film in voiceover and talks about his "screwed up" life living with his mother in a cheap apartment. Chris' father was an Annapolis trained fighter pilot who had served in Vietnam. However, he became seriously disturbed after bombing a civilian hospital and burned his uniform as a "killers costume". Falling into alcoholism, he deserts Chris and Tracy moving into a commune separating himself from society. Chris hasn't seen his father in three years and still loves him deeply. |
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Chris delivers papers and fish to help support his mother who works as a bartender and waitress. He unwittingly discovers that there are drugs hidden in the fish he is delivering and becomes a small time drug dealer out of desperation when he finds his Tracy has resorted to working as a stripper to support them. She is ashamed when he confronts her with this, but she tells him that sometimes in life one has to do what is not good to get what is. Chris visits his father in the commune and attempts to get him to reconcile with Tracy but to no avail. |
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A stranger, Joe, comes to town and strikes up a relationship with Tracy. This further disturbs her son. Joe turns out to be a law-enforcement undercover agent, working to bring down the drug ring. His relationship with Tracy and her son complicates matters as the time comes to make the arrest. Chris narrowly escapes being killed when he delivers the drugs and it degenerates into a shootout. In the end, he spends the night in jail and is put on probation learning a valuable lesson. He and Tracy move into a mobile home park and she retires from stripping. The Apollo moon landing is mentioned throughout the film as a sort of metaphor and Chris mentions in the end how happy the astronauts must have been to have returned to the earth no matter how screwed up it is. |
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Chris is also working at part-time jobs to help pay the bills. He is upset when he finds out about his mother's new job. One of the boy's jobs is to deliver fish to a local seafood restaurant, but it turns out the man who runs the restaurant is involved in a drug-smuggling ring in which the drugs are hidden inside fish. Chris steals some of the drugs and tries to sell them to earn enough money so that his mother can quit her dancing job. |
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A stranger, Joe, comes to town and strikes up a relationship with Tracy. This further disturbs her son, who seeks out his father, John Cross, a military veteran so troubled from his Vietnam experiences that he is now a gardener in a monastery. |
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Joe turns out to be a law-enforcement undercover agent, working to bring down the drug ring. His relationship with Tracy and her son complicates matters as the time comes to make the arrest. |
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== Cast == |
== Cast == |
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Revision as of 18:50, 12 February 2017
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| Directed by | Chris Menges |
| Written by | Scott Sommer |
| Produced by | Anthea Sylbert |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ivan Strasburg |
| Edited by | Tony Lawson |
| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,052,738 (USA) |
CrissCross is a 1992 American drama film directed by Chris Menges and written by Scott Sommer, based on his homonymous novel. It stars Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine, Steve Buscemi, and David Arnott.
Plot
Divorced mom Tracy Cross raises her 12-year-old son, Christopher, in Key West in 1969 around the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Chris narrates the film in voiceover and talks about his "screwed up" life living with his mother in a cheap apartment. Chris' father was an Annapolis trained fighter pilot who had served in Vietnam. However, he became seriously disturbed after bombing a civilian hospital and burned his uniform as a "killers costume". Falling into alcoholism, he deserts Chris and Tracy moving into a commune separating himself from society. Chris hasn't seen his father in three years and still loves him deeply. Chris delivers papers and fish to help support his mother who works as a bartender and waitress. He unwittingly discovers that there are drugs hidden in the fish he is delivering and becomes a small time drug dealer out of desperation when he finds his Tracy has resorted to working as a stripper to support them. She is ashamed when he confronts her with this, but she tells him that sometimes in life one has to do what is not good to get what is. Chris visits his father in the commune and attempts to get him to reconcile with Tracy but to no avail. A stranger, Joe, comes to town and strikes up a relationship with Tracy. This further disturbs her son. Joe turns out to be a law-enforcement undercover agent, working to bring down the drug ring. His relationship with Tracy and her son complicates matters as the time comes to make the arrest. Chris narrowly escapes being killed when he delivers the drugs and it degenerates into a shootout. In the end, he spends the night in jail and is put on probation learning a valuable lesson. He and Tracy move into a mobile home park and she retires from stripping. The Apollo moon landing is mentioned throughout the film as a sort of metaphor and Chris mentions in the end how happy the astronauts must have been to have returned to the earth no matter how screwed up it is.
Cast
- David Arnott as Chris Cross
- Goldie Hawn as Tracy Cross
- Arliss Howard as Joe
- Keith Carradine as John Cross
- James Gammon as Emmitt
- Steve Buscemi as Louis
- David Arnott as Chris Cross
Location
Some scenes were shot in the Miami/KeyWest surrounding areas. The "Spanish Monastery" in the film is in North Miami and was brought to Miami from Spain in thousands of numbered individual stone blocks and re-built stone by stone in North Miami.