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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 (Hawn) raises her 12-year-old son, Christopher (Arnott), in Key West in 1969 around the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Chris narrates the film in voice-over and talks about his "screwed up" life living with his mother in a cheap hotel. Chris' father (Carradine) 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 "killer's 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 but 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 mother, 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 (Howard), 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, The Drug Dealer
Location
Some scenes were shot in the Miami/Key West 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.
References
External links
CrissCross at IMDb
CrissCross at AllMovie
CrissCross at Rotten Tomatoes
Criss Cross and variants thereof may refer to:
Music
Criss Cross Jazz, a jazz label
Criss-Cross, a 1962 jazz album by Thelonious Monk
"Criss Cross", a song by The Rolling Stones from the 2020 deluxe edition of Goats Head Soup
Kris Kross, American hip hop duo
Visual media
Criss Cross (musical), a 1926 musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern
Criss Cross (film), a 1949 film starring Burt Lancaster
CrissCross (film), a 1992 film starring Goldie Hawn
Chris Cross (TV series), a 1993 UK television comedy series
Criss Cross, a 2001 film sequel to the television series Tropical Heat
Crisscross (film), a 2018 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Birsa Dasgupta
Crisscross, the shape more correctly known as:
Greek cross
Crossbuck
Literature
Criss Cross (novel), a novel by Lynne Rae Perkins, recipient of the 2006 Newbery Medal
CRISSCROSS (novel), a 2004 Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson
Science, technology, and engineering
Level crossings can be colloquially referred to "criss-crosses"
Criss-cross algorithm, a basis-exchange pivoting algorithm for linear programming (and more general problems in mathematical optimization)
Other uses
Criss-Cross (art cooperative), artist's cooperative that formed in Colorado in the early 1970s
Criss Cross (New Kent, Virginia), a registered historic place in New Kent County, Virginia
Crisscross applesauce, a style of sitting, also known as Tailor or Indian style, see Sitting#Positions
Criss-cross squeeze, a squeeze play in bridge
See also
Kris Kross, an American rap duo
Chris Cross (disambiguation)