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Jul 16, 2024 · Hilary Swank Lived In A Trailer Park Before Moving To California. Photo: Kathy Hutchins. Shutterstock.com. Oscar award winner Hilary Swank was once very poor. After growing up in a trailer park, she lived in her car for a while as she looked for acting jobs to support herself and her mother.
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It’s probably the most iconic scene focusing on Billy Crudup’s character, Russell Hammond, lead singer for the band Stillwater and a stand-in for just any number of real-life rockers from which screenwriter Cameron Crowe drew inspiration. For what it’s worth, Crudup says he will never tireof fans coming up to him and delivering this famous line.
Arguably the film’s standout scene, this is the reason a generation of young movie-goers ended up learning all the lyrics to an Elton Johnsong from 1971.
There’s no shortage of tender scenes between young journalist William (Patrick Fugit) and supreme Band Aid Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), but this airport scene might come the close to summing up their relationship – a real connection that’s not based on sex or music but just genuine affection between two people who want the best for the other.
All the tears shed by Hudson’s character might lead you to forget that Almost Famousis a comedy too. In one of the funniest scenes, it looks like the band’s plane may crash, and confessions come out left and right. Easily the best of them is Stillwater member Ed (John Fedevich) announcing “I’m gay!” Moments later, the turbulence ceases, and every o...
While Deschanel technically made her film debut in 1999 in Mumford, most movie-goers first met her in Almost Famous, in which she plays a mod stewardess and the older sister to Fugit’s character. Fifteen years later, she’s still the cool girl, and she’s still rocking looks straight out of a mid-’70s period piece – and we wouldn’t want her any other...
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Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Billy Crudup. ... Russell Hammond. Frances McDormand. ... Elaine Miller. Kate Hudson.
Apr 5, 2022 · Almost Famous is set in the early 1970s, when (second-wave) feminism was more a burgeoning controversy than a pop-fied Instagram axiom. In the film’s rock circle, the roles are clear: men are to be adored, women are to be adoring. Penny Lane understands the dynamic but still refuses to “retire.” Even her name shows her woeful self ...
Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It tells the story of a teenage journalist, played by Fugit, writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, touring with the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and writing his first cover story on the band.
Nov 20, 2023 · Paranoid By Black Sabbath. Early in Almost Famous, William attends a Black Sabbath concert. Not surprisingly, the movie chooses a Black Sabbath song to play in the background. In this case, it’s ...
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Feb 6, 2001 · Cameron Crowe has finally filmed his passion. The director of "Singles" and "Jerry Maguire" has tapped into his own past when (as a geeky, stuttering fifteen-year-old) he began writing for "Creem ...
