This film changed my opinion of Woody Guthrie

Most people are when you actively examine their life. Especially artists.

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There are two kinds of people in the world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

The same pretty much happened to me when I took a 500 level biography writing class in college of which Woody was one of the subjects. As far as the accuracy of the movie, although many of the events and most of the characters outside Woody's immediate family are fictionalized, details are basically true in that Woody did not treat people well and his family often had a rough time of it. Woody was also a snob--judged people by where they were from and what they did (for instance if someone was born in a large city they couldn't sing folk songs, but if they were from a less populous area they were a "small town virgin," and anyone "college bred" was not "of the people"--and I was attending college while learning all this and actively playing Woody's music!) I also love Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger. I still listen to Woody's music and details about his life...would not have lived in the same place with him for anything! If I had to stop listening to certain music based on the performer's life, then Elvis, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, and probably Michael Jackson would have to go straight out the window, and I've also heard things about John Denver. Those alone would put a huge dent in my collection!