Review of Breezy

I picked this originally because of William Holden, since I had just watched him in Picnic from 1955. In Breezy, directed by fellow actor Clint Eastwood, we meet Holden as a grouchy middle-aged man, fairly set in his ways and dancing with a midlife crisis.
Wouldn't you know it, but a free spirited hippy named (a little too on the nose) Breezy stumbles into his life and begins to wear down that dark cloud over his head.
The characters, by and large, are stereotypical, while it felt like this was initially Breezy's story. We are introduced to her as she is drifting through life, hitchhiking from here to there with what seems to be her only prized possession, a guitar.
Predictably, through conversations and a trip to the ocean, the two of them fall in love, but outside pressures and Holden's having to deal with the stigma of dating a much younger woman eventually creates a divide.
Overall, Kay Lenz was perfectly cast as Breezy, and while a little manic in places, did show that young people were more complex than what the older generation was led to believe in the early 1970s.
All told, this was way too formulaic to make it any more than average in my book. Also, the cameo from the director was forced and the final act was rushed and a little odd.