Almost Famous

Almost Famous is a 2000 comedydrama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, and Patrick Fugit. It tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s while covering the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semiautobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone.

In 1973, 15yearold William Miller aspires to be a rock journalist. His single mother, Elaine, a radical college professor, wants him to become a lawyer. Shunned by older classmates because of his young age, William, who loves rock music, writes freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego.Rock journalist Lester Bangs, impressed with Williams writing, gives William aassignment to write a review of a Black Sabbath concert. William is unable to get in backstage but the band Stillwater arrives and brings William inside with them after he praises their music. Lead guitarist Russell Hammond takes a liking to William, partly because of Williams new friendship with a rock groupie, Penny Lane, whom Russell is attracted to. ........

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