Almost Famous- the mother was the only interesting character in the movie.
Unfortunately Crowe evidently thought the Penny Lane character was worth most of our attention. Is there anyone who hasn't met in real life at least a dozen virtually identical hippy free spirit girls? Does anyone really find them interesting?
Granted we're supposed to be seeing all this through the eyes of a 15 year old boy, and I fully believed that he would fall hopelessly in love with her. But since he was a bit of a non-entity, she didn't catch much reflected light from him.
Put the mother back on the phone with the rock star, sez I.
