I've expected a little 'darker' end!
Why?
This wasn't the end of anybody's anything. And you do realize that this was semi-autobiographical, yes?
William still has his adult life ahead of him, Stillwater goes on their 1974 tour, back in the bus but sans William, and there's nothing unreal/unusual about a daughter and mother re-uniting, certainly not romantic-comedy like (as you mentioned in another post in this thread).
This is a drama film with a fitting final act. Happy? Relatively, if you don't count that William never gets Penny, we never see Penny again after she sends Russel to Williams house, and Polexia certainly would have not gone off to Europe if William had loved her instead of Penny. There were lots of little disappointments for characters in this film, not limited to Penny being dumped by Russell (sold to Humble Pie for a case of beer), then OD'ing on Quaaludes.
There were no terrible, life-lasting scars occurring in this film. It was all a learning experience in a coming of age film with a great rock-and-roll on-the-road experience.
It wasn't a rom-com, but neither was it a Shakespearian tragedy.
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