This movie is about a boy who is a rock-journalist who travels around the country covering a band instead of going to all of high school. Actually, it's not. There isn't really anything about his actual writing process. Or how he progresses getting jobs based on his writing. There are a couple vaguely comical telephone calls he has with an editor at Rolling Stone who hands him everything on a silver platter and that's about it. It's not about writing\being a critic\journalism, nor about a young person conning\proving himself to others.

This movie is about rock music. Actually, even though the movie is about him covering ONE main band, there is virtually no performance scenes. There is no song-writing\practicing. There isn't much about music to be honest. The film starts with Hoffmann being a ROCK rock critic all about music etc. for whom its never too early to play Search and Destroy by Iggy and the Stooges. There is also montage of the main character going through a lot of rock albums. During the movie, the most heard song probably is Elton John's TINY DANCER! The movie is not about rock music, it is not about a band (interactions between band members? most of them are barely characters in the film), and it's not really about music in general.

What is the movie about? It's about a bunch of scattered, disconnected, poorly-developed emotional backdrops featuring the stereotypical characters, events, screen writing and editing of something designed for mass consumption. "MOROCCO ISN'T REAL!"