Al Pacino Seeks Rock ’n’ Roll Redemption in Danny Collins

Another film that gets musicians all wrong.
If there’s one thing you can trust Hollywood to do, it’s get rock stars all wrong. From the boilerplate cornpone of Jailhouse Rock to the ecstatic camp of The Doors to the antibacterial sentimentality of Almost Famous and beyond, movies about rock musicians have ever been a repository of their creators’ projections about rock ’n’ roll mythos, or a means of preserving hoary old tropes about hedonism, persona, compromise, an