ok,so this film won't be coming anywhere near me......but i wish i could see it....here is what was said on slate.com...t seems ironic, but it is true, says Jonathan Demme, who directed "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," which is now playing in U.S. theaters.

The term "family film" is associated with Disney and Pixar and huggable stuffed toys. Young's song "Needle and the Damage Done" speaks to heroin addiction, and he will forever be linked to 1960s and 1970s anti-war protests with songs like "Ohio" from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And since then, the 60-year-old has only grown in stature to become a standard bearer for angst-ridden teen rockers.

Yet, in "Heart of Gold," the Canadian-born Young and Demme have created what they term a "dream concert" of songs from his recent "Prairie Wind" album and older "Harvest" and "Harvest Moon" records that conjure spirits of country-and-western music's past and harken to a simple life in the North American heartland.

"It puts me in touch with some deeply felt, old-fashioned, powerful ideas about what America stands for, what the family stands for, what friends stand for," Demme told Reuters in a joint interview with Young. "There's a complete absence of cynicism. I think it makes you feel good to be human."

"Heart of Gold" is a concert, but don't call it a "concert film," its makers said. Young, his bandmates and friends like Emmylou Harris sing and play 19 songs, but each tune was elaborately staged over two nights in Nashville, Tennessee's Ryman Auditorium 4 -- the first home of the Grand Ole Opry.......

for the record.......4-way street is one of the first substantial albums i ever purchased, if you kindly overlook the monkees when i was in the 6th grade......i was thrilled to be able to see firsthand neil young's handwritten lyrics for heart of gold...on a napkin....in a display case at the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland......nobody else in my 'party' was as moved.......but then again......their favorite song of all time isn't...cowgirl in the sand.......which neil sings best on....four way street.........