Almost Famous (2000)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 162
Fresh: 142 | Rotten: 20
Almost Famous, with its great ensemble performances and story, is a well-crafted, warm-hearted movie that successfully draws you into its era.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 7
Almost Famous, with its great ensemble performances and story, is a well-crafted, warm-hearted movie that successfully draws you into its era.
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Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journalist -- he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in high school -- inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) is a bright, loving, but strict single parent whose distrust of rock music and fears about drug use have helped to drive a wedge between herself and her two children, Anita (Zooey
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Cast
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Patrick Fugit
William Miller -
Billy Crudup
Russell Hammond -
Frances McDormand
Elaine Miller -
Kate Hudson
Penny Lane -
Jason Lee
Jeff Bebe -
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lester Bangs -
Zooey Deschanel
Anita Miller -
Anna Paquin
Polexia Aphrodisia -
Fairuza Balk
Sapphire -
Noah Taylor
Dick Roswell -
John Fedevich
Ed Vallencourt -
Bijou Phillips
Estrella Starr -
Eion Bailey
Jann Wenner -
Terry Chen
Ben Fong-Torres -
Jimmy Fallon
Dennis Hope -
Daniel Wilson
Journalism Teacher -
Jay Baruchel
Vic Munoz -
John Patrick Amedori
Himself -
Michael Angarano
Young William Miller -
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All Critics (175) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (148) | Rotten (20) | DVD (48)
The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.
Top CriticNeither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be.
None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.
It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions...
A blissfully sweet coming-of-age movie in which everyone, young and less young, comes of age.
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.
will satisfy many music fans for its honest portrayal of the rock-band life
...a remarkably engaging film, enjoyable from beginning to end. (Blu-ray Bootleg Cut)
...funny, joyous, touching, and moving...a very personal film and a most-universal one combined.
Great, but lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
Director Cameron Crowe won the Original Screenplay Oscar for his warmly nostalgic, often sharply observed memoir of his early days as a music journalist
Whether disappointed or elated, Cameron Crowe's observations are trenchant. Instinct is the greatest asset as idols let you down. That first gulp of passion in a profession can quench you for years. Quite often, bassists and drummers have little to say.
It's a world of brotherhood, groupies, the bright spotlight of fame, and the bitterness of business, packaged into a gushing, intuitive valentine from Crowe to his former magical life.
Cameron Crowe has a knack for making contagious movies that pull audiences into a whirlpool of situations that make you feel impossibly cool because his characters aren't near as cool as their surroundings imply.
Easily the best film on Crowe's already impressive roster.
Audience Reviews for Almost Famous
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- Russell Hammond: What am I doing? I' am telling secrets to the ONE guy you don't tell secrets too.
- William Miller: No. We'll do the interview some other time.
- Russell Hammond: Okay. Cool. So I guess tonight it's just... you know, friends?
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- Penny Lane: It`s all happening.
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- Lester Bangs: They made you feel cool. And hey, I met you. You are not cool.
- William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't. I'm glad you were home.
- Lester Bangs: I'm always home. I'm uncool.
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- Jeff Bebe: I can't say anymore with the writer here.
- Russell Hammond: No, no, no. You can trust him, you can say whatever you want.
- Jeff Bebe: I work just as hard or harder than anybody on that stage. You know what I do? I connect. I get people off. I look for the guy who isn't getting off, and I make him get off.
- Jeff Bebe: [to William] And actually, *that* you can print!
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- Dennis Hope: I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.
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- Jeff Bebe: It's okay! I'm easy to forget! Just leave me behind! I'm only the fucking lead singer!
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