Almost Famous movie

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.

Almost Famous is a 2000 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 2000. It tells a fictional story of a teenage journalist initially writing for Creem magazine and then later for Rolling Stone covering the rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published.The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone.Despite very good reviews, the film was not a box-office success. The film received four Oscar nominations, one of which led to an award to Crowe for his screenplay. It was also awarded the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Roger Ebert hailed it as the best movie of the year. 1The film itself is based mostly on his experiences on tour with rock band The Allman Brothers Band in the early 1970s, in the Rolling Stone article he talks about how he lost his virginity, fell in love, and met his heroes, experiences that the main character William has in the movie.The tagline for Almost Famous is "Experience It. Enjoy It. Just Dont Fall For It."SynopsisWilliam Miller is a teenager aspiring to be a rock-and-roll journalist, despite the desires of his eccentric, overprotective mother, Elaine, who wants him to go into law. Shunned by his classmates (most of whom are two or three years older than him), he writes for underground papers in his hometown, San Diego.He goes one morning to watch as a local radio station interviews pioneering rock journalist Lester Bangs. The two hit it off, and Bangs gives William an assignment to interview Black Sabbath.

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Almost Famous Cast

• Anna Paquin
• Fairuza Balk
• Frances McDormand
• Jason Lee
• Jimmy Fallon
• John Fedevich
• Kate Hudson
• Liz Stauber
• Mark Kozelek
• Michael Angarano
• Noah Taylor
• Patrick Fugit
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Zooey Deschanel hot