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	Almost Famous \| film reviews \| musicOMH.com
		Almost Famous, the new comedy/drama from Jerry Maguire writer-director Cameron Crowe, is the oasis film fans have been looking for after wandering through the vast, empty desert known as the summer 2000 movie season.
		This is all matched by his naturalistic, almost laid-back and altogether refreshing directing style, which is reminiscent of James L. Brooks at his very best.
		Almost Famous will allow you to experience everything a great film should - it will make you laugh, perhaps even cry, but most of all it will make you care about what is going on to the people on screen, something very few films have done this year.
	www.musicomh.com /films/almost.htm (579 words)

	Almost Famous - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Almost Famous is also the name of an album by RandB singer Lumidee.
		Almost Famous is a film, written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 2000.
		The movie remains a masterful piece for those were raised in the 1970s and provides a valuable insight into the mind of Cameron Crowe and through his adept storytelling, presents a rare look inside rock and roll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Almost_Famous (1124 words)

	Almost Famous DVD review on AudioRevolution.com
		With 'Almost Famous,' he achieves his long-cherished goal of making a movie about his rock 'n' roll period, when as a teenage journalist, he was regarded by rock groups as somewhere between The Enemy and a mascot.
		So there he is on Stillwater's "Almost Famous" tour, riding with them on their reliable bus from motel to hotel across the country.
		Although 'Almost Famous' centers on rock 'n' roll and there are some concert scenes, it's primarily a dialog movie, so the DTS featured on the DVD is, often, somewhat beside the point.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/almostfamous.shtml (1479 words)

	DVD Review: Almost Famous
		The film, which has an almost scarily perfect sense of time and place, stars newcomer Patrick Fugit as William, a young writer who finds himself falling in love with the world of rock and roll, and one night, asked to come along with a band on their latest tour.
		The entire film is simply deserving of Oscar notice, and I'd be dissapointed if "Almost Famous" isn't nominated for Best Picture; many of the actors should also recieve nominations in their catagories as well.
		Although "Almost Famous" occasionally folds-up into a dialogue-driven film, when the music enters the soundtrack, it becomes apparent that care was taken in presenting it and that it's important to the feel of the overall film.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/almostfamousdvd.html (1348 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Almost Famous" review (2000)
		Writer-director Cameron Crowe's fond fictionalization of his first assignment for Rolling Stone -- as a 15-year-old cub reporter in 1973 -- "Almost Famous" is a vividly realized labor of love and an absolute pleasure to watch.
		In "Almost Famous" the hippie hard rock band is called Stillwater, and is fronted by a temperamental singer (Jason Lee) and a talented guitarist (Billy Crudup) with a laid back charisma.
		"Almost Famous" captures with vivid, nostalgic precision the atmosphere of early '70s and the handwriting on the wall that spelled out what those who grew up in that era consider the death of true rock 'n' roll at the hands of commercialization.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/almostfamous.html (1206 words)

	CD Baby: ALMOST FAMOUS: The Upstairs Chronicles
		Drummers were not easy to find or agree with so Almost Famous plays with a professional, hired drummer for all occasions.
		The upbeat flow of Almost Famous is back again in this remastered edition of The Upstairs Chronicles, which could easily become an instant classic with sounds that are both upbeat, mellow and transition everywhere between the two.
		Overall, Almost Famous brings such ability to the scene that is deserving of rotation throughout anyone’s car rides.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/almostfamous (837 words)

	Almost Famous: Cinephiles Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Almost Famous, written and directed by Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire), is a coming-of-age story inspired by the director's own experiences during his early years as a music journalist.
		Almost Famous offers an uncomplicated narration that adheres to a teenager's drive to become independent, to develop his own identity, and to maintain objectivity as a beginning music critic.
		This is explored within the arena of William's responsibilities toward his editor (who thinks the writer he has hired over the phone is much older) and his mother (who wishes her boy is mature enough to resist peer pressure and drugs, but young enough to obey her).
	www.cinephiles.net /Almost_Famous/Film-Synopsis.html (420 words)

	Almost Famous
		It needs to be said that Almost Famous is by no means a bad film -- just a middling, loudly overpraised one (it's being heralded as Cameron Crowe's epic or masterpiece, or something).
		Almost Famous isn't only about that, though -- it's also about maintaining one's purity in the face of temptation: sex, drugs, fame, adulation.
		Almost Famous doesn't pretend to be journalism, but it could've used a little more Lester Bangs in its soul.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/almostfamous.html (729 words)

	Almost Famous Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
		Consensus: Almost Famous, with its great ensemble performances and story, is a well-crafted, warm-hearted movie that successfully draws you into its era.
		Almost Famous, with its great ensemble performances and story, is a well-crafted, warm-hearted movie that successfully draws you into its era.
		ALMOST FAMOUS is a semiautobiographical account that tells the story of a teen journalist, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), who goes on the road with an up-and-coming rock band called Stillwater.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/almost_famous (861 words)

	Review: Almost Famous (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, although there's no doubt that Almost Famous represents a thoroughly engaging two hours spent in a darkened theater, lauding it as one of the year's greatest may be an overreaction by some to the poor quality of other 2000 entries to date.
		Almost Famous looks back at the world of rock 'n roll as it existed in the early 1970s.
		Nevertheless, Almost Famous views the '70s rock scene through a largely nostalgic lens, softening many of the uglier aspects of life as it was during the era.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/almost_famous.html (1134 words)

	Review: Almost Famous
		However, although there's no doubt that Almost Famous represents a thoroughly engaging two hours spent in a darkened theater, lauding it as one of the year's greatest may be an overreaction by some to the poor quality of other 2000 entries to date.
		Nevertheless, Almost Famous views the '70s rock scene through a largely nostalgic lens, softening many of the uglier aspects of life as it was during the era.
		Almost Famous will be hard to top for its sheer exuberance and high feel-good quotient.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/a/almost_famous.html (1134 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Almost Famous Movie Review
		Late in the proceedings of Almost Famous, an early '70s rock band on the brink of success finds itself stuck in a plane that may be going down.
		Almost Famous is marvelously funny at points (Crowe's wit is second to none), yet it never milks humor at the expense of genuine emotion.
		Almost Famous is the second great film about rock 'n' roll to come out this year (High Fidelity being the first).
	www.flipsidemovies.com /almostfamous.html (744 words)

	DVD Review - Almost Famous
		"Almost Famous" is presented on DVD in an anamorphic widescreen transfer (1.85:1).
		Many of his other films are notable for their breathtaking exterior shots, but in Almost Famous he proves he can make simple things look amazing as well.
		Since "Almost Famous" is largely about Rock and Roll you’d expect a soundtrack that hits you in the gut, and with this DVD you are treated to such a soundtrack in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 surround.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/almost_famous.shtml (1649 words)

	'Almost Famous': Kate Hudson Interview Spotlight at Hollywood.com
		Kate Hudson knows what it's like to be "almost famous." The daughter of Goldie Hawn was appearing in national magazines even before she became an actress, but always with the camera focused on the bubbly older woman next to her.
		Now at the tender age of 21, the California girl is finally ready to come into her own with a starmaking turn in "Almost Famous," Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical rock drama about his days as a 15-year-old reporter for Rolling Stone magazine.
		Although "Almost Famous" focuses on a young man's coming of age, Penny is the film's ray of light, drawing everyone around her into her orbit.
	www.hollywood.com /feature/384928 (789 words)

	ALMOST FAMOUS
		Almost exactly one year later, the studio unleashes Almost Famous, and, while it remains to be seen if the public snuggles up to the film, it’s already pulling in some of the best reviews of the year.
		Famous opens in 1969 San Diego, where single schoolteacher Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand, Wonder Boys) is struggling to raise her two children in a time when drugs and free love were guaranteed to anyone that wanted them.
		Famous was written and directed by Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire), who, as you may know, became an editor for Rolling Stone when he was just sixteen.
	www.sick-boy.com /almostfamous.htm (853 words)

	Almost Famous
		The result is the pleasingly realized and warmly affectionate “Almost Famous.” Crowe is too talented to make a truly boring film, even out of material that in the wrong hands might have seemed like a relative’s tortured vacation footage.
		At once an ode to a vanished time and a coming of age story, “Almost Famous” focuses on William Miller, a precocious fifteen year old whose passion for rock music leads him to begin a career as a rock journalist.
		In “Almost Famous,” I found myself more intrigued by Lester, Russell, and maybe even Penny than in William (after all, he is just the reporter, not the subject of the story).
	www.hartmansworld.com /moviereviews/almostfamous.html (854 words)

	Almost Famous
		Almost Famous, writer/director Cameron Crowe's first film since 1996's hugely-successful Jerry Maguire, will be on a lot of ten best lists come the end of the year and it will be on mine.
		Almost Famous follows a '70's highschooler (newcomer Patrick Fugit) who bluffs his way into covering a Lynyrd Skynyrd-type rock band for Rolling Stone magazine only to learn that truth-in-reporting isn't as easy as it sounds.
		They always say the best writers write from experience and Almost Famous is a composite of many of Crowe's true-life memories–at 16 he covered the Allman Brothers for Rolling Stone–and the film rings true as a result.
	www.members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/almostfamous.htm (508 words)

	"Almost Famous" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The band is called Stillwater and is “Almost Famous” It has its collection of rock star types but these rock stars are a gentle seventies bunch, oozing a kind of flower-children innocence, and that means well.
		Almost Famous speaks of community and connectedness (the scene in the bus where they all sing along with an Elton John tape is great stuff for the soul) and yet it is a connectedness that Christians can’t really join in.
		Watching “Almost Famous” reminded me of the long trips I used to take with my Youth Group when I was a teenager.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/almostfamous.html (1406 words)

	Almost Famous
		And it doesn't help when you are presented with a true journalistic challenge like Almost Famous, a movie that throws down the gauntlet at press and asks it not necessarily to review it badly but to be honest.
		Biopic or spin pic, Almost Famous comes off as oftentimes a contrived comedy injected like bad heroin into an otherwise thoughtful drama, and it almost overdoses on this clichÃ©d comedy more than a few times.
		Almost Famous's pulling rock stories out of its hat (or some other orifice) is akin to that kid spoutning the annoying weight-of-the-human-brain statistic in Crowe's last movie, Jerry Maguire.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2000_Almost_Famous.html (880 words)

	Almost Famous: Untitled - The Bootleg Cut (2000)
		Famous never makes a big deal of the different relationships and their effects on each other.
		Almost Famous: Untitled appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Almost Famous became one of the sweetest and more ingratiating films of 2001, and it possesses a particular resonance for those of us with a heavy interest in rock music.
	www.dvdmg.com /almostfamousbootlegcut.shtml (3312 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Almost Famous (xhtml)
		"Almost Famous" is about the world of rock, but it's not a rock film, it's a coming-of-age film, about an idealistic kid who sees the real world, witnesses its cruelties and heartbreaks, and yet finds much room for hope.
		The Penny Lane character is written with particular delicacy, as she tries to justify her existence and explain her values (in a milieu that seems to have none).
		William tells her, "He sold you to Humble Pie for 50 bucks and a case of beer." Watch the silence, the brave smile, the tear and the precise spin she puts on the words, "What kind of beer?" It's not an easy laugh.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000915/REVIEWS/9150301/1023 (713 words)

	Almost Good: Almost Famous Movie Review (NY Rock)
		Cute as they are, Kate and the crew are passed around like appetizers at a record release party while the young writer William tries to define what's on and off the record regarding the tour's carnal comings and goings.
		Not surprisingly, considering her talent for subtlety, McDormand is both comedic and convincing in her role as William's single mom, a woman who wants the most for her kids, even though she understands the least about the times in which they live.
		Two hours later, Almost Famous is a stylish recreation of a time when classic rock was king and "the music" really mattered – at least to the bands that defined the times, the girls who followed them and the hopelessly less-than-cool souls who wrote about them.
	www.nyrock.com /movies/2000/almost.asp (602 words)

	Almost Famous (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ALMOST FAMOUS is a semiautobiographical account that tells the story of a teen journalist, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), who goes on the road with an up-and-coming rock band called Stillwater.
		ALMOST FAMOUS is the first Crowe film that doesn't feature actor Eric Stoltz.
		ALMOST FAMOUS won two Golden Globe awards: Best Motion Picture--Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Kate Hudson).
	www.videoflicks.com /titles/1100/1100025.htm (1448 words)

	Almost Famous
		Writing the article requires that he travels with a band that is on the verge of becoming famous.
		For the other key characters, Almost Famous is a slice of life movie, ending with a note of realism.
		Lester's observation about the press has meaning in everyday life when he says "friendship is the booze they feed you to make you feel cool".- Thinking about that might help us all choose our friends and associates, both personal and professional, with more care.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id573.htm (1059 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Director Crowe's Famous venture
		Almost Famous is a partly autobiographical coming-of-age tale for Crowe.
		Although the film focuses on the young journalist, nearly all the principal characters in Almost Famous have to reassess their lives.
		Almost Famous goes on release across the UK in the New Year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/991230.stm (386 words)

	Almost Famous
		Almost Famous is a fictionalized account of Crowe's experiences writing for Rolling Stone in the mid 1970s, when he was only fifteen.
		This is his life, and Almost Famous is an intensely personal exploration of his own history.
		Hudson (she's the face on all the Almost Famous movie posters) lights up the screen every time she appears.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/almost_famous.html (670 words)

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