Almost Famous (DVD) Reviews

This is a as seductive as anything I have seen this year and encapsulates what youth is all about as we live for a rock heroes. Equally seductive is the gorgeous Kate Hudson, daughter of the ageless Goldie Hawn who plays the early seventies rock chic come muse who inspired the guys to party hard, she would even get on her knees to ...  Read the complete review

Almost Famous is a brilliant escapist flic for anyone who wished he/she was in a rock band, or indeed a groupie. Director Cameron Crowe supposedly based the story on his own experiences as a young music journalist in the 1970s. It will inspire anyone who has a classic LP to dig it out and spin it again, and will surely bring more than a pang of ...  Read the complete review

Starring: Billy Crudup,Russell Hammond,Frances McDormand,Kate Hudson Director: Cameron Crowe Screen Writer: Cameron Crowe Cert 15 The kind of music in the film : Beach Boys The Who Todd Rundgren The Seeds Led Zeppelin Cat Stevens Still Water ...  Read the complete review

Cameron Crowe turns out another warm-hearted, engaging, entertaining film. So, he's turning into quite a reliable director, in that respect. 'Almost Famous' is his look at life as a teenage rock writer, and it borrows to some unspecified extent on Crowe's own career. The young William Miller strikes up a friendship with ...  Read the complete review

I suggested this product category and when I did I honestly had a job classifying where it should go. Almost Famous is a comedy, a musical, a drama, it's a lot of things but most importantly it's a great film. Writer/Director Cameron Crowe started in music journalism at a young age and encountered the likes of Bowie and Zeppelin. ...  Read the complete review

'Almost': very nearly 'Famous': widely known What does it actually mean to be classified as almost famous ? Does it apply to bands/individuals/groups that are more manufactured than a Chicken McNugget such as Who’ Say (ooops pardon me-I mean Hear’Say) or..I know, what about Billy Piper..hmmm ...  Read the complete review

God bless Brad Pit. His last minute decision not to play the leader of a fictional band Stillwater made way here for the genuinely almost famous Billy Crudup, and ensured the story of writer/director Cameron Crowe’s adolescent affair with rock is a manifesto for misfits rather than an advertisement for charisma. At the centre are an unknown ...  Read the complete review

Almost Famous is the new rock n roll drama directed by Cameron Crowe. It has won serveral awards and is praised my critics and audiences all around the world. I was lucky enough to see this film a couple of days ago on DVD. The story follows William Miller who is a 15 year old music fan who luckily gets noticed by Rolling Stone magazine ...  Read the complete review

I went in to the theater knowing nothing about this movie. I hadn't heard of any of the actors in it or even what it was about. All I had seen was the rather unsatisfying billboard of Kate Hudson's face. But I was surprisingly swept away by this movie. It's a beautiful account of an innocent hero who encounters many not-so-innocent ...  Read the complete review

It's the early 1970's - William(Patrick Fugit)'s sister gives hima stack of classic rock albums and instantly he becomes a fan. A few years later, and still only 15, Rolling Stone magazine notices his writing and sends him on the road to write a piece on upcoming band Stillwater. But chance of a lifetime quickly becomes an initiation ...  Read the complete review

Every time they do a writer story I get all choked up. This is like Shakespeare in Love only different. Like Shakespeare in Love? WHAT? Well, we have a writer as the hero. And...? And he's in love. And...? Okay the rest is different except that he's really working hard to be a success and he's around performers and... Anyway ...  Read the complete review

I wasn't around in 1973 - but it made me feel nostalgic! Brilliant soundtrack. - Advantages: Billy Crudup, mmmmm, really very funny and sweet - Disadvantages: Long - but not long enough, Kate Hudson got to snog Billy Crudup, when he clearly wants to be snogging me!

Writer and director Cameron Crowe gives us this nice semi autobiographical account of his life as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine at the tender age of 16. Crowe is far from prolific, his only other works in the 90's were the highly underrated ‘Singles’ and Academy award nominated film ‘Jerry Maguire’. He was also ...  Read the complete review

I am doing film studies at University. Heres the thing. William Miller is a very bright, witty, precocious and confused young man. He believes he is 13 when his mother, Elaine, confesses that he is only 11. She has him skip 5th grade because in her words, "there is too much padding in the grades". Elaine is an eccentric ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely adore ALMOST FAMOUS...it's now my most favorite film of all time. Before this movie, I never really cared much for Cameron Crowe's works and didn't really know a lot about him except that he had directed JERRY MIGUIRE, which I never saw. I'm 17 years old, a guy who's never got to experience the '70s or ...  Read the complete review

When you're not cool enough, you do the next best thing! William (Patrick Fugit) is a young senior in high school. His Mum (Frances McDormand) jumped him ahead a few grades, so he is only 15. He is one of the uncool kids at school. His Mother is extremely overprotective and does not allow rock music in the house. As an ...  Read the complete review

I thought i'd missed catching this at the cinema, so I was pretty excited when my local fleapit had a special screening last night. I think that the measure of a truly excellent film lies in its power either to make you think, or to make you feel. Yesterday was another terrible day in a hopefully limited edition series, but this film made me ...  Read the complete review

Almost Famous is an autobiographical movie, based on Cameron Crowe memories. It is a story about a naive boy (William Miller) who has the most exciting experience of his life when he is given the chance to cover the US tour of a new band, stillwater, for Rolling Stone magazine. During this trip, William becomes more mature and aware of what ...  Read the complete review

Kate Hudson is nominated for an oscar for her role in this movie, but i really feel the star of the show was Frances McDormand as the square, over-protective mum, who turns out to be kind of cool towards the end of the movie. The movie is narrated by a young 16 year old guy who aspires to be a rock music journalist. He meets a music ...  Read the complete review

"Experience it. Enjoy it. Just don't fall for it," runs the tag-line for Almost Famous. The line is intended as a cautionary warning to the film's hero - a precocious 15-year-old who embarks on a joyride through the early 70s rock scene - but it could just as easily apply to the picture itself. Written and directed by Cameron ...  Read the complete review