and you're 14. *shrug* I liked it for the music, as well as having the backdrop of the turbulence of the 60s and 70s. As a hippie, I found many of the characters to be based on real people, like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Merry Pranksters' "Further" bus turned into the "Beyond" bus in the movie, and Dr Timothy Leary, of course, turned into Mr Kite.