Almost Famous is Excellent! (Almost Famous (DVD))

Member Name: lyrickat21

Product:	Almost Famous (DVD)
Date:	23/11/08 (5 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: excellent plot, amazing characters played by amazing actors, great movie

Disadvantages: none

This movie is a must see for anyone, it is absolutely wonderful and highly entertaining. It deals a lot with the music era from the 60's which I absolutely loved. I love movies that show the time when music made the world go round and the lives that these artists had back in the day. And being that this movie is inspired by true events make it all the more real and intriguing to watch.

The story is about a nerdy young 15 year old boy named William, played by Patrick Fugit, who is determined to be a professional music journalist. William ends up getting advice from the prominent rock editor of Creem magazine, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who gives Williams his first rock article assignment. He tasks Williams with getting an interview and writing an article about Black Sabbath. However, when Williams is unable to get the attention of the headlining band and runs into a smaller time band who opened the show for Black Sabbath called Stillwater. Williams writes a fantastic article about this up and coming band that the editor of Creem happily publishes for him. This exciting article attracts the attention of the editor of Rolling Stone Magazine who asks William if he would be interested in traveling on the road with the Stillwater band in order to write a behind the scenes article about the group. Obviously Williams is ecstatic and jumps at the chance.

While Williams mother is not happy at all about her son gallivanting around with a group of satan worshipping rock stars (this is how she thinks of rockbands) she can't deny her son such an amazing opportunity so she VERY reluctantly lets him go. While on this adventure of his life William befriends this crazy rockers who take him under their wings and try and show him the time of his life. William also meets the groups Bandaides, which are groupies that supposedly don't sleep with the artists, yeah right, they are just there to support the music. In the Bandaid group William meets Penny Lane (not her real name), played by the beautiful and talented Kate Hudson who also takes an interest in William and Penny and William become very good friends.

This story is all about the drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll that takes place while on the road with this up and coming band that is on their way to stardom. It is a very entertaining story and probably one of my favorite movies. I really enjoyed this film and I know that you will too.

Summary: Almost Famous is Excellent!