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.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ralph Macchio | ... | Eugene Martone | |
| Joe Seneca | ... | Willie Brown | |
| Jami Gertz | ... | Frances | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Scratch's Assistant | |
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Robert Judd | ... | Scratch |
| Steve Vai | ... | Jack Butler | |
| Dennis Lipscomb | ... | Lloyd | |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Bartender | |
| John Hancock | ... | Sheriff Tilford | |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Dr. Santis | |
| Gretchen Palmer | ... | Beautiful Girl / Dancer | |
| Al Fann | ... | Pawnbroker | |
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Wally Taylor | ... | O.Z |
| Tim Russ | ... | Robert Johnson | |
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Tom Donaldson | ... | John McGraw (as Tex Donaldson) |
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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to its origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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deal with the devil | blues music | guitar duel | musical duel | harmonica |Taglines:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 March 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$2,071,680, 16 March 1986, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$5,839,031Company Credits
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Willie Brown: Where do you live?
Eugene Martone: It's a school dormitory.
Willie Brown: [sarcastically] Ooh, school dormitory. Oh, times is hard. Times is hard!
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Steve Vai used some riffs from the climactic duel as the basis for the song "Bad Horsie", which can be found on his album "Alien Love Secrets", released in 1995. See more »Goofs
At the end, when Eugene walks up to the stage for the guitar duel, the Nike sneakers he has worn throughout the film sound like hard-soled shoes on the wooden floor. See more »Quotes
Willie Brown: You can't get enough mileage living at home with your Momma' wiping your butt.Willie Brown: Where do you live?
Eugene Martone: It's a school dormitory.
Willie Brown: [sarcastically] Ooh, school dormitory. Oh, times is hard. Times is hard!
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This is a really, really good movie and I don't understand why no one ever mentions it or why it is never on cable.
It has everything that I love in a movie: good story, great characters well acted, fine comedy and powerful touching drama. Ralph Macchio is a brilliant young guitar student, Eugene Martone, at Julliard (or some other equally good music school) who does not want to play Mozart. He wants to play guitar like his idol, a long dead blues guitar legend. In search of his dreams, he breaks an elderly black blues player out of a prison nursing home.
The two of them go on an odyssey to the Mississippi Delta in quest of memories and dreams. As in any odyssey, they meet a variety of fascinating and/or dangerous characters along the way. Eugene must also overcome the obstacles and tests that all those who quest must face - until it is time to face the ultimate test against the greatest blues guitarist in the Delta.
I enjoy music, but my knowledge is superficial. I probably wouldn't know a good guitar riff from a raft, but even I could recognize awesome guitar work in the final sequence of Crossroads.
So, if you like good movies and good acting and great guitar music, please check out Crossroads. If enough of us spread the word, it may no longer be a forgotten classic.