Almost Famous
Driving by his deep admiration for music and musicians, William Miller, a young high school teenager boy, who enjoys with a great ambition and seeks to achieve a great goal in his life, has a chance to accompany a famous band in a tour, in order to write about them for the famous magazine of Rolling Stones.
29 November 1981
24 January 1967, Massillon, Ohio, USA
17 March 1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
8 June 1976, Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA
17 April 1965, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
January 02, 2011
Great, but lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.October 03, 2002
The film shimmers with the irresistible pleasures that define Hollywood at its best -- it's polished like glass, funny, knowing and bright, and filled with characters whose lives are invariably sexier and more purposeful than our own.August 19, 2008
The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.April 07, 2015
For every scene that's a sturdy piece of observed wisdom about coming of age... there's another that's pure cheese.February 09, 2006
It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions...February 28, 2014
The film itself -- a quasi-autobiography of writer-director Cameron Crowe -- is still good, but not as good as it seemed 14 years ago.March 19, 2002
This is the celluloid version of a glossy magazine feature -- easily perused, modestly entertaining, the kind of piece designed to please the publisher by not taxing (or offending) the reader.February 13, 2011
will satisfy many music fans for its honest portrayal of the rock-band lifeAugust 07, 2004
A blissfully sweet coming-of-age movie in which everyone, young and less young, comes of age.January 21, 2011
...funny, joyous, touching, and moving...a very personal film and a most-universal one combined.May 22, 2016
Cameron Crowe's thinly fictionalized autobiography is deftly poised between rosy affection, thoughtful remembrance, and giddy adolescent awe. As perhaps it should be.April 27, 2007
None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.