Runtime: 122

Director: Cameron Crowe

Cast:

Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee

ALMOST FAMOUS is inspired by director Cameron Crowe’s real life adventures reporting for Rolling Stone magazine as a teenager in the 1970s. Crowe’s alter ego in the film is young William Miller (Patrick Fugit), and in place of the Allman Brothers Band of Crowe’s era, FAMOUS has the fictional group Stillwater. A struggling writer for local underground rock papers, William finds himself with the opportunity to write for Rolling Stone and follow Stillwater’s tour, much to the chagrin of William’s college professor mother (Frances McDormand). Befriending the lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and falling in love with one of the ‘band–aids‘ (groupies with class) with the ubiquitous moniker Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), William finds himself on an journey that alters and challenges his innocence and also threatens his journalistic integrity.