Almost Famous (2000)
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand, Noah Taylor, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis:
1973: an all-male rock band is accompanied on its cross-country tour by an aspiring fifteen year-old music journalist and a girl 'band aide' from his home town who has helped him climb aboard. Over the next few weeks he vainly tries to get an exclusive interview with the group leader, and cure the girl he loves of her unquestioning obsession with fame and fandom.
Review:
Doubtless buoyed by the success of Jerry Maguire, Crowe managed to get funding for this formless, autobiographical recreation of more innocent times, poised somewhere between comedy and drama. It allows time for its characters to grow on you, and fascinates precisely because it is so hard to pigeonhole.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand, Noah Taylor, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis:
1973: an all-male rock band is accompanied on its cross-country tour by an aspiring fifteen year-old music journalist and a girl 'band aide' from his home town who has helped him climb aboard. Over the next few weeks he vainly tries to get an exclusive interview with the group leader, and cure the girl he loves of her unquestioning obsession with fame and fandom.
Review:
Doubtless buoyed by the success of Jerry Maguire, Crowe managed to get funding for this formless, autobiographical recreation of more innocent times, poised somewhere between comedy and drama. It allows time for its characters to grow on you, and fascinates precisely because it is so hard to pigeonhole.
Country: US
Technical: col 122m
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand, Noah Taylor, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis:
1973: an all-male rock band is accompanied on its cross-country tour by an aspiring fifteen year-old music journalist and a girl 'band aide' from his home town who has helped him climb aboard. Over the next few weeks he vainly tries to get an exclusive interview with the group leader, and cure the girl he loves of her unquestioning obsession with fame and fandom.
Review:
Doubtless buoyed by the success of Jerry Maguire, Crowe managed to get funding for this formless, autobiographical recreation of more innocent times, poised somewhere between comedy and drama. It allows time for its characters to grow on you, and fascinates precisely because it is so hard to pigeonhole.