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Almost Famous
The life of a young teenager high school student, William Miller, an ambitious and successful guy, who according to his deep admiration for music, has a chance to accompany an upcoming band, Stillwater, in order to write about them an essay on a famous magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, has been changed completely.
9 October 1976, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3 December 1987, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1942, Missouri, USA
17 April 1965, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
26 March 1984, La Jolla, California, USA
21 May 1974, Point Reyes, California, USA
May 22, 2016
Cameron Crowe's thinly fictionalized autobiography is deftly poised between rosy affection, thoughtful remembrance, and giddy adolescent awe. As perhaps it should be.February 28, 2014
The film itself -- a quasi-autobiography of writer-director Cameron Crowe -- is still good, but not as good as it seemed 14 years ago.February 09, 2006
It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions...January 21, 2011
...funny, joyous, touching, and moving...a very personal film and a most-universal one combined.October 03, 2002
The film shimmers with the irresistible pleasures that define Hollywood at its best -- it's polished like glass, funny, knowing and bright, and filled with characters whose lives are invariably sexier and more purposeful than our own.April 27, 2007
None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.March 19, 2002
This is the celluloid version of a glossy magazine feature -- easily perused, modestly entertaining, the kind of piece designed to please the publisher by not taxing (or offending) the reader.August 07, 2004
A blissfully sweet coming-of-age movie in which everyone, young and less young, comes of age.April 07, 2015
For every scene that's a sturdy piece of observed wisdom about coming of age... there's another that's pure cheese.January 02, 2011
Great, but lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.August 19, 2008
The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.February 13, 2011
will satisfy many music fans for its honest portrayal of the rock-band life