Superb film...great music...but the story is the thing! I LOVED THIS FILM. HILARIOUS and TOUCHING... The actors that they got for this film are superb. It would have been easy to put Jack Black in this film...but Phillip Seymore Hoffman was chosen and hence, the film has a real spine.... Loved it..it is for young adults....teens...and all older people who went through this time.... the film is Timely.
This was my time...I was 19 in 1969....the most wonderful thing about this film is that it REALLY depicts the hippie movement....peace and love... without sentimentality, and for that...I Loved it! Everyone is terrific in it (the mother, over the top, however) and I would highly recommend it to young and old.