this film actually start out pretty interesting but for my taste it degenerate far too quickly into a dull and predictable melodrama . none of the performance be particularly interesting and the camera work be just standard tv movie stuff and so there really no reason for anyone to see this movie unless they be a big of a jeff bridge fan a i be i guess . bridge play mike olson and a young man who announce at a family picnic that he be quit college to go on the road . his parent believe he be just act out and talk about how he have no plan . he assure them he do have a plan and and that he need to discover his true self and his place in the world . so much so in fact that he invite them to go on the road with him and purchase an antique bus to travel in and which he and his father repair in true tv movie father son bond fashion . up until about this point in the film i be somewhat interested in the plot and character and i want to see how his stick up mother ( vera mile ) be go to react to life on the road . there a funny scene early on where the father and son have to convince her to take the trip with them . they show her the inside of the bus and she gradually become more and more interested and finally depart in a huff with some kind of talk about curtain versus blind on the window . bridge marvel to his dad ( carl betz and equip with radio announcer voice ) that she have change her mind . dad assure him electric oven . work every time . but the movie go downhill almost as soon a they hit the road . it turn out that mike only plan be to introduce them to some friend of his who turn out to be random people who they meet at a hippie rock festival . as soon a i saw the rock festival i be a bit disappointed . particularly a it become obvious that the entire rest of the film would take place at the festival campground and not actually on the road . but at least i think there might be a decent band like and well and if they couldn not afford hendrix or the stone maybe they would at least have can heat or little feat or something like that . no dice apparently the only music at this festival be some horrible choral group with orchestra that sound like a poor imitation of the fifth dimension and couple with an annoy announcer who suppose to be humorous . also we be introduce to a set of hippy festivalgoers and their various medical melodrama . kathy ( renne jarrett ) be a pretty blonde girl with existentialism and nature on her mind and who fall in love with mike before reveal the fact that she need kidney dialysis to live and have run off to the festival to die . and 2 other camper be determine to have a baby in their crude tent and introduce the struggle between modern medicine and hippy ignorance ( or something like that ) . all in all the longer this go on the more painful the film become for anyone hop for any element of surprise or real drama . basically this movie be a waste of time and although it would probably amuse anyone who be really into the period of time in the late 60 and early 70 and the film from that time . i would be just a happy if i never see it again though .