When you picture Goldie Hawn, you no doubt imagine a well-meaning ditz. That's what makes Chris Menges's "CrissCross" all the more interesting. Hawn plays a woman who moves to Key West in 1969 with her son after the dad leaves the family. Severe situations arise.
It's a world of drug usage while Apollo 11 heads to the moon. A world that could only exist once (one could say that Hawn indirectly abetted it by starring on "Laugh-In"). This isn't any sort of profound movie, but it does have gritty scenes; believe me, you'd never expect a Goldie Hawn movie to have some of the stuff that this movie has!
Basically, this movie and Steven Spielberg's "Sugarland Express" show that, far from simply being a cute, silly blonde, Goldie Hawn is a versatile actress. Worth seeing.
PS: director Chris Menges also directed "A World Apart" (a fictionalized account of the persecuted Slovo family in apartheid South Africa) but is usually a cinematographer.
It's a world of drug usage while Apollo 11 heads to the moon. A world that could only exist once (one could say that Hawn indirectly abetted it by starring on "Laugh-In"). This isn't any sort of profound movie, but it does have gritty scenes; believe me, you'd never expect a Goldie Hawn movie to have some of the stuff that this movie has!
Basically, this movie and Steven Spielberg's "Sugarland Express" show that, far from simply being a cute, silly blonde, Goldie Hawn is a versatile actress. Worth seeing.
PS: director Chris Menges also directed "A World Apart" (a fictionalized account of the persecuted Slovo family in apartheid South Africa) but is usually a cinematographer.