I love coming-of-age movies and this is one of my favorites. Cameron Crowe’s biopic about a boy growing up way too fast is very familiar to my experience as a young man. The soundtrack of great music and the “friends” you find in your vinyl collection was the experience of many young men and women. The precious depiction of encountering love, life, and innocence lost is handled here with a gentle and thoughtful hand. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll never felt so redemptive.

• IMDB 7.9

• Rotten Tomatoes 89%/92%

• (R)