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Almost Famous (2000)

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88

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.

80

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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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Movie Info

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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Drama, Comedy

Cameron Crowe

Mar 13, 2001

$31.7M

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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.

August 19, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
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Neither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be.

May 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comments (9)
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None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.

April 27, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions...

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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A blissfully sweet coming-of-age movie in which everyone, young and less young, comes of age.

August 7, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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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.

March 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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will satisfy many music fans for its honest portrayal of the rock-band life

February 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

...a remarkably engaging film, enjoyable from beginning to end. (Blu-ray Bootleg Cut)

January 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

...funny, joyous, touching, and moving...a very personal film and a most-universal one combined.

January 21, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Great, but lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Director Cameron Crowe won the Original Screenplay Oscar for his warmly nostalgic, often sharply observed memoir of his early days as a music journalist

November 18, 2010 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comments (2)
EmanuelLevy.Com

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.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
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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.

December 28, 2009 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com
BrianOrndorf.com

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.

May 17, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Easily the best film on Crowe's already impressive roster.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
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Audience Reviews for Almost Famous

One of the best films about music ever made, with standout performances from everyone in the cast, including a rocking soundtrack that brings this simple, breezy road-trip of a kid following a band on the rise up to "greatness" status. It's just a wonderful movie, and does a good job of being engaging right from the first second and it never really lets up. Kate Hudson's hypnotizing performance is the real standout as a seductive and carefree fan who, like the lead character, experiences the good and ugly things the rock and roll lifestyle brings to an individual. We need more movies like this made about music, ones that don't for a minute feel artificial, and ones that deliver memorable scenes and provide interesting characters that won't leave you quickly.
July 20, 2007
Dan Schultz

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Almost Famous is almost great, featuring great acting from both Fugit and Hudson, as well as an authentic rock and roll feel. However, the story of a bickering band and the music vs. the money is a very worn tale, told in a not-so-fresh fashion.
July 24, 2011
Sam Barnett

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    1. Russell Hammond: What am I doing? I' am telling secrets to the ONE guy you don't tell secrets too.
    2. William Miller: No. We'll do the interview some other time.
    3. Russell Hammond: Okay. Cool. So I guess tonight it's just... you know, friends?
    – Submitted by Giovanni R (5 months ago)
    1. Penny Lane: It`s all happening.
    – Submitted by Miriam M (5 months ago)
    1. Lester Bangs: They made you feel cool. And hey, I met you. You are not cool.
    2. William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't. I'm glad you were home.
    3. Lester Bangs: I'm always home. I'm uncool.
    – Submitted by William C (7 months ago)
    1. Jeff Bebe: I can't say anymore with the writer here.
    2. Russell Hammond: No, no, no. You can trust him, you can say whatever you want.
    3. 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.
    4. Jeff Bebe: [to William] And actually, *that* you can print!
    – Submitted by William C (7 months ago)
    1. Dennis Hope: I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.
    – Submitted by William C (7 months ago)
    1. Jeff Bebe: It's okay! I'm easy to forget! Just leave me behind! I'm only the fucking lead singer!
    – Submitted by William C (7 months ago)

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