Pat Morris

I was prepared to really like it, and at first really liked it, and watching it I was reminded (yeah, I'm that old) of the amazing creativity of that time. Plus the acknowledgement of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. But the only woman interviewed was Michelle Phillips, who was a great singer but not an innovator at that time--and this movie is supposedly about innovators. Graham Nash has a prominent place in the movie, but no Joni Mitchell, who lived in Laurel Canyon (for some time with Graham Nash) and is certainly as much as if not more than a creative innovator than Nash. "Think I'm Going Back" is presented as totally a Byrd's song with no mention of Carole King, who wrote that song and also lived in the Canyon at that time. That the only woman who has a prominent place in the film is someone who, however talented, was one of four performers in an ensemble, while leaving out important women songwriters like Mitchell and KIng made this a huge disappointment for me.

Nothing, predictable, preachy, would have been subpar even as a Gallmark movie.