I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. Penny Lane was such an awful shallow self-absorbed nit-wit of a character. Hated her then, hater her now, terrible start to finish. She gets a tiny bit of credit for not cutting off her son’s hair despite all the pressure from everyone in the universe who doesn’t have more important things to worry about, but other than that, yuck.

Joan, marry me and be my wife? Please? Bring your glasses and your adorable frumpy pjs so I can rub your feet for all eternity? Yes? Awesome.

Only time ive logged in just to upvote. Bravo.

Ok, two things:
1. This should be called Interview With Forrest Gump (get it? anyone? yeah?).
2. I really hate how he leaves Cate Blanchett right before she’s about to have his kid because he doesn’t want to be a “burden” as he grows old/young (even though he clearly has more than a few good years left before he gets all young man old baby dead or whatever), so he leaves her alone to be heart-broken and a single mother (because that’s easy), then he gets to travel the world and do all sorts of enjoyable selfish things. What REALLY gets me, is that he gets to come back into her life right at the moment when he actually IS a burden and now shes old and has to take care of him, after having already raised his child all alone.