However, if you don't have
authentic friendships with those who will actually keep you accountable to practicing the things the counselor suggests, you won't
make it in the day to day!
But it's so winningly
authentic in its depiction of early adolescent hormones,
friendship, love and rock «n» roll, and so genuinely punk in spirit (there's something especially defiant in
making a film about a punk band set in the 1980s, when it was deeply out of fashion) that it lingers in the memory long past the end credits (which are also glorious).