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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.
Almost Famous: Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee. A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
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- Cameron Crowe
- 2000-09-22
Almost Famous. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. The early 1970s. William Miller is 15-years old and an aspiring rock journalist. He gets a job writing for Rolling Stone magazine.
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- The original ending of Almost Famous involved Neil Young. In 2015, Cameron Crowe told Vanity Fair that he intended for Almost Famous to end on Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) playing the family Neil Young’s “On the Way Home.”
- Kate Hudson researched groupies and rock star wives for her role as Penny Lane in Almost Famous. In a 2000 interview with The Morning Call, Kate Hudson said she prepared for the role of Penny Lane by listening to a lot of classic rock music, reading former groupie Pamela Des Barres’ book I’m With the Band, and interviewing the wives of rock stars.
- Cameron Crowe's mom liked Almost Famous—except for the fact that Frances McDormand's character walked around barefoot. Frances McDormand’s character, Elaine Miller, was based on Crowe’s own mother, Alice, who appeared in most of his movies (including Almost Famous).
- Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson wrote a lot of the songs for Almost Famous on their honeymoon. Crowe told Film Comment that while honeymooning in 1986 with his then-wife, Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, they holed up in a cabin in Oregon and created a fake band and wrote songs, “knowing sort of one day we might do a movie where we could use the stuff,” he said.
Apr 3, 2024 · Almost Famous is a loose retelling of Cameron Crowe's own experiences as a teenage journalist for Rolling Stone. Real-life journalists Lester Bangs and Ben Fong-Torres...
Synopsis. Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old William, an unabashed music fan who is inspired by the seminal bands of the time.
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Sep 15, 2000 · “Almost Famous” is funny and touching in so many different ways. It’s the story of a 15-year-old kid, smart and terrifyingly earnest, who through luck and pluck gets assigned by Rolling Stone magazine to do a profile of a rising rock band.
