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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Cameron Crowe
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Actors:
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Liz Stauber,
John Fedevich,
Mark Kozelek,
Billy Crudup,
Frances McDormand,
Kate Hudson,
Jason Lee,
Patrick Fugit,
Zooey Deschanel,
Michael Angarano,
Anna Paquin,
Fairuza Balk,
Noah Taylor,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Jimmy Fallon
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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An aspiring teenage rock hack gets his big repudiate when he follows an up-and-coming fillet on its tour.
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What a High!
15 year old William is an 'advanced learner'. He also lives with a very controlling mother who wants the best for her children but seems to make many wrong decisions. Having been left his sister's entire record collection, (this is the 1970s so think Led Zep etc) William falls in love with rock and roll and starts to write for a small magazine. Soon his talents are noticed by Rolling Stone mag and he is asked to follow the band 'Still Waters' on their tour.
This is a story about many things- rock and roll lifestyles, groupies (sorry, "bandettes", ha ha), coming-of-age, love, friendship and loads more.
Kate Hudson plays 'Penny Lane' one of the bandettes who is in love with the guitarist. She is superb.
The film is a real surpris...
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe's charming semi-autobiographical tale of early Seventies rock, sex and maybe a few drugs. Scooped two awards at the 2001 Golden Globes
Rock 'n' roll, so they say, is a young man's game and few have demonstrated this quite as dramatically as Cameron Crowe. He started work as a music journalist on 'Rolling Stone' while most of his peer group were still experimenting with different types of acne cream.
In fact, by his early twenties, Crowe had already wearied of hanging out with rock's coke-erati and began carving himself out a career in Hollywood directing acclaimed movies like Say Anything, Singles and, most recently, Jerry Maguire. Almost Famous, however, effectively fuses these two columns of his CV for a film which...
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