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Almost Famous
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Directed by	Cameron Crowe
Produced by	Cameron Crowe Lisa Stewart
Written by	Cameron Crowe
Starring	Patrick Fugit Billy Crudup Kate Hudson Frances McDormand Jason Lee Philip Seymour Hoffman Zooey Deschanel
Music by	Nancy Wilson
Cinematography	John Toll
Editing by	Joe Hutshing Saar Klein
Distributed by	USA: DreamWorks Non-USA: Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	September 13, 2000
Running time	Theatrical cut 122 min. Extended cut 162 min.
Country
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Gross revenue	$32,534,850
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Almost Famous is a 2000 comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It tells a fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines while covering the rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ... Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ... Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ... Patrick Fugit Patrick Fugit (born October 27, 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American actor best known for his performance as lead role in the Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. ... William Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. ... This article is about the actress. ... Frances Louise McDormand[1] (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress. ... Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor and professional skateboarder. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress and singer. ... Nancy Wilson is the name of two prominent American entertainers: An African-American singer and actress. ... John Toll is an American cinematographer born in Cleveland, Ohio. ... Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is most well known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe (who is also from San Diego, California). ... This article is about the film studio. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ... CREEM, Americas Only Rock n Roll Magazine, was a monthly rock n roll publication started in 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. ... This article is about the magazine. ...

Despite receiving good reviews, the film was a box office bomb. It received four Oscar nominations, one of which led to an award to Crowe for his screenplay. It was also awarded the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Roger Ebert hailed it as the best movie of the year. Cleopatra is the biggest box-office bomb of all time. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... This article is about the year. ... I like to MOO MOO MOO and eat GRASS! ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

The film is based on Crowe's experiences touring with rock bands The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. In a Rolling Stone article, he talks about how he lost his virginity, fell in love, and met his heroes, experiences that are shared by William, the main character in the film. The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia, labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the principal architects of Southern rock. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced lĕh-nérd skin-nérd) (pronounced ) is an iconic U.S. Southern rock band. ...

Plot

In 1973, William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is a teenager aspiring to be a rock-and-roll journalist, despite the desires of his eccentric, overprotective mother, Elaine (Frances McDormand), who wants him to go into law. Shunned by his classmates (most of whom are two or three years older than he is), he writes for underground papers in his hometown, San Diego. Patrick Fugit Patrick Fugit (born October 27, 1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American actor best known for his performance as lead role in the Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. ... Frances Louise McDormand[1] (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress. ... San Diego redirects here. ...

He goes one morning to watch as a local radio station interviews pioneering rock journalist Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman). The two hit it off, and Bangs gives William a $35 assignment to write up a Black Sabbath concert. William, without credentials or a ticket, cannot get into the arena. He meets up with some "Band-Aides," semi-groupies (Bijou Phillips, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk) who draw the line at intercourse with rock stars (everything else is fair game) and their leader, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). Then he runs into the opening band on the card, Stillwater, who first dismiss him as a journalist, but then take him to their hearts (and backstage) when he calls them all by their names, praises (in detail) their most recent work, and they realize he's also a fan. Lester Bangs during an interview Leslie Conway Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. ... Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... The iPayOne Center (formerly San Diego Sports Arena) is an indoor arena located on Sports Arena Blvd in Point Loma, San Diego, California off of Interstate 8. ... Bijou Lily Phillips[1] (born April 1, 1980), is an American actress, fashion model, and singer. ... Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Canadian actress. ... Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. ... This article is about the actress. ...

A week or so later, he goes with Penny (deceiving his mother) to the "Riot House" – the Hyatt Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. He first meets Vic Munoz (Jay Baruchel), an extreme Led Zeppelin fan with a bad stutter, who follows them all over the country, and they are soon in a room with Stillwater. Penny goes off with the band's "guitarist with mystique", Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), to a vending room, where they have sex. William is beginning to appear jealous. Hyatt West Hollywood Hotel The Hyatt West Hollywood is a 262-room hotel located at 8401 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California (at Kings Road). ... Jonathan Adam Saunders Baruchel (born April 9, 1982), better known as Jay Baruchel, is a Canadian film and television actor. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... William Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. ...

William is called by Ben Fong-Torres (Terry Chen), editor of Rolling Stone. They have read his material and want him to do a story. However, Ben is under the impression that William is several years older than he really is. William does nothing to disillusion Ben and accepts an assignment to follow Stillwater on the road to write an article. Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪; pinyin: Fāng Zhènháo; born January 7, 1945, in Alameda, California) is a rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine (through 1981) and the San Francisco Chronicle (from around 1982). ... Terry Chen was born to Chinese and Taiwanese parents. ... This article is about the magazine. ...

Elaine consents, under strict conditions (which, to her chagrin, will be repeatedly violated). Penny and other Band-Aides will be riding the bus as well. William tries to get interviews with each band member, but his attempts to interview Russell are repeatedly frustrated. The young journalist witnesses Russell receive a severe electric shock on stage in Phoenix. A new band T-shirt showing the band (with all members but Russell out of focus) sparks a bitter argument between lead singer Jeff (Jason Lee) and Russell, with Jeff angry that what was once "The Jeff Bebe Band" is now dominated by Russell. In reaction, Russell and William go off to a teenage house party where the musician has too much acid. William calls for the band bus to come by the house, and Russell is persuaded to get on the bus. It is made clear that, however much they might argue, the band is a family. Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor and professional skateboarder. ...

Both Penny and Russell know that Penny must leave the tour before New York, where Leslie, Russell's wife, will be joining the tour. During a poker game, he allows the manager to put up the groupies as a stake in a poker game. The band leases the groupies to the band Humble Pie for $50 and a case of Heineken beer. When William tells Penny about this, she acts nonchalant but is devastated. For the hard rock band of the same name, see Humble Pie (band). ... Heineken (or Heineken Brouwerijen) is a Dutch beer brewer, established in 1863 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken purchased a brewery in Amsterdam. ...

Penny goes to New York on her own anyway, and, as the band celebrates in a restaurant together with Russell's wife, Penny shows up in the background. Band manager Dick Roswell (Noah Taylor) asks her to leave. William goes to Penny's room and finds her overdosed. While trying to wake her up, he tells her he loves her. William has called a doctor, who comes and pumps her stomach. She confides in William the next day, even telling him her real name – a secret even Russell doesn't know. This article is about the actor; for the Desperate Housewives character, see Noah Taylor (Desperate Housewives character). ...

On a plane ride to another concert the band's plane is caught in poor weather and looks like it will have to make a crash landing. Believing they will all die, the band members and entourage start confessing their secrets. When Jeff and Russell start arguing, and Penny is referred to as "that fucking groupie", William, to the surprise of all, defends Penny and speaks his anger that the band used her, declaring his own love for her. The plane lands safely, leaving all to ponder the changed atmosphere.

William must continue on to San Francisco to finish the story. As William is leaving to fly to San Francisco, Russell tells him to go ahead and write whatever he wants. The Rolling Stone editors love the story and can't wait to publish it, but first they have to ask the band to verify it. The band, fearful of the effect the article will have on their image, deny everything. William is crushed and the story is dead. While sitting dejected in the airport, he sees his sister, who had left both home and Elaine to become a stewardess. They go back home together, and William stages a reconciliation. San Francisco redirects here. ...

While backstage at the Miami Orange Bowl back on the Stillwater tour, Sapphire (Fairuza Balk) (one of the Band-Aids) talks to Russell about Penny's near-suicide and how despite the many warnings she received about having too many people fall in love with her, one of them ended up saving her life. Russell is initially curious about the person Sapphire talks about (William), but Sapphire immediately chastises him, saying that everyone, including Penny, knows what Russell and the band did to him. Russell then calls Penny and asks for her address, telling her that he wants to meet. Instead she gives him William's address in an attempt to solve the conflict between them. Russell goes to the house thinking it's Penny's but finds Elaine instead. Upon learning who he is, she sends him in to see William. The two of them reconcile and Russell finally gives William the long overdue interview. He then reveals that he called Rolling Stone and told them that William's story is true. The Miami Orange Bowl is a stadium in the City of Miami, Florida, west of Downtown in Little Havana. ... Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. ...

The final scenes are a picture of the cover of the Rolling Stone issue that will feature William's story with Russell's picture on the front with the rest of the band behind him. We then see images of Penny leaving on her dream trip to Morocco, William at home with his sister and mother, and of the bus which will take the band (without William) on its 1974 tour (with the marquee "NO MORE AIRPLANES TOUR 1974"). Though, as Bangs suggested, rock 'n' roll may be changing from an art form to a profit center, it is implied that at least Stillwater will be immune from this.

Cast

• Billy Crudup as Russell Hammond
• Frances McDormand as Elaine Miller
• Kate Hudson as Penny Lane - Hudson was originally cast in the role of Anita [1]
• Jason Lee as Jeff Bebe
• Patrick Fugit as William Miller
• Zooey Deschanel as Anita Miller
• Michael Angarano as Young William Miller
• Anna Paquin as Polexia Aphrodisia
• Fairuza Balk as Sapphire
• Noah Taylor as Dick Roswell
• Mark Kozelek as Larry Fellows
• Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs
• Jimmy Fallon as Dennis Hope
• Bijou Phillips as Estrella Starr
• Terry Chen as Ben Fong-Torres
• Rainn Wilson as David Felton
• Jay Baruchel as Vic Munoz
• Peter Frampton as Reg
• Zack Ward as The Legendary Red Dog
• Mitch Hedberg as Eagles Road Manager
• John Patrick Amedori as Himself
• Nick Swardson as Insane Bowie Fan
• William Mapother (deleted scenes) as Bartender
• Bodhi Elfman (director's cut) as Alice's manager
• Kyle Gass (director's cut) as Quince Allen
• Patrick Williams (uncredited) as Roadie

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Alternative versions

Along with the standard DVD version, Crowe compiled an alternative version entitled Untitled, which was a compilation of both released footage and his favorite deleted scenes. Running for about 40 minutes longer than the theatrical release, Untitled was subtitled "The Bootleg Cut", with its packaging resembling a cheap seventies bootleg. (A variant of Untitled is the basis of the network television version of Almost Famous.)

The DVD also contains a deleted scene that shows William playing Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven (in its entirety) to his mother. The song itself is not included on the soundtrack but the video has a watermark instructing viewers when to start the song. For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... This article is about the Led Zeppelin song. ...

Major changes to the film

• The hand in the opening titles writes "Untitled" instead of "Almost Famous". (Untitled was the title that Cameron Crowe originally wanted for the cinematic release of the film.^{[citation needed]})
• Elaine berates a man for painting "Merry Xmas" on a storefront, saying "Xmas" is not a real word.
• Young William is mocked in the school shower for his lack of pubic hair.
• Additional albums are glimpsed in the scene in which young William finds the record bag under his bed.
• William arrives at school to see that his classmates have changed the marquee on the school's sign to read "William Miller is too young to drive or fuck".
• Bangs talks in more detail about The Guess Who and mentions a live version of "American Woman" from the band's Live at the Paramount.
• Before cutting to the restaurant scene with Bangs, William and Lester stand on a street corner in silence, as Lester waits for a bus.
• Before the first concert, Russell tells William how the littlest details in songs are the ones that people remember the most, citing a vocal sound in Marvin Gaye's "What's Happening, Brother?" as an example.
• Anita's ex-boyfriend climbs through the window of her bedroom and reminisces to William about the sex that the couple had there.
• Before he leaves for the Hyatt House, William is given a wad of 'gas money' by his mother.
• Penny and William's arrival at the Hyatt House is heavily extended, featuring a longer section with Peter Frampton, as well as William being told to "blow me!" by a comedian he recognizes.
• Before having sex in the ice room, Penny and Russell have a conversation about their failing relationship.
• Stillwater attends a radio interview, hosted by a stoned DJ (Kyle Gass) who falls asleep mid-conversation. Band members argue and spout profanities on-air as the DJ snoozes.
• An extra scene before Russell's electric shock shows William attempting to interview Stillwater's dimwitted bassist in the pouring rain.
• The backstage fight over the blurry t-shirt includes an added exchange in which Russell asks Jeff if he's on cocaine.
• In addition to "Page, Plant...Mick, Keith", Jeff also mentions Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple when he gives examples of frontmen/guitarist songwriting teams.
• A couple of lines were added to the scene in Aaron's bedroom, in which Russell gives his belt to a young admirer.
• The scene after Russell jumps into the swimming pool is extended.
• The band holds a birthday party for Penny Lane, where she first learns that she is not welcome on the airplane.
• Upon exiting the band's car in New York, William's bag tears, spilling his (stolen) souvenirs from hotels all over the pavement. He is assisted in picking them up by Dick. This explains, in the regular cut, why William is holding a torn bag when he is confronted by superfan Vic.
• After Penny Lane's recovery from her Quaalude overdose, she and William walk by the lake in Central Park. She proceeds to tell him her real name, and in the extended cut, says: "Keith Richards looked at me, pulled me on stage, he took me backstage, and gave me a Coke with ice and a lemon. And I never went home."
• A short scene is added near the end as Jeff and Russell talk their relationship through.

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Soundtrack

Main article: Almost Famous (soundtrack)

The film's award-winning soundtrack features over 50 songs, making up an eclectic mix of period rock, other period genres, and some songs written by Crowe's wife, Nancy Wilson, expressly for the movie. Highlights include rarely-licensed Led Zeppelin tracks, Simon & Garfunkel's "America", Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters", Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years", Joni Mitchell's "River" and Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air". There is one slight anachronism: during a party scene the title track from Deep Purple's "Burn" plays in the background. The album was not released until February 1974, a half year after the events are supposed to have taken place. Almost Famous is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 2000. ... Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson, 1993 Nancy Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ... America, a Paul Simon song, was made popular by 1960s folk duo Simon and Garfunkel. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Tiny Dancer is a 1971 song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, which appears on Johns fifth album, Madman Across the Water. ... Steely Dan is a Grammy-Award winning American jazz rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... Reelin in the Years is a song by jazz rock band Steely Dan, released as the sixth track on their 1972 album, Cant Buy a Thrill. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... For other uses, see River (disambiguation). ... Thunderclap Newman was a late 1960s one-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, Something in the Air, a 1969 UK Number One hit, remains in demand for television commercials, film soundtracks, and compilations. ... Something in the Air was a UK #1 single for three weeks in July 1969 for Thunderclap Newman. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Burn, a hard rock-album by Deep Purple released in 1974, welcomed new vocalist David Coverdale, as well as Bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes from Trapeze. ...

Soundtrack Album Track Listing

1. Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
2. The Who - "Sparks"
3. Todd Rundgren - "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference"
4. Yes - "I've Seen All Good People: Your Move"
5. The Beach Boys - "Feel Flows"
6. Stillwater - "Fever Dog"
7. Rod Stewart - "Every Picture Tells a Story"
8. The Seeds - "Mr. Farmer"
9. The Allman Brothers Band - "One Way Out" (Live)
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Simple Man"
11. Led Zeppelin - "That's the Way"
12. Elton John - "Tiny Dancer"
13. Elton John - "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters"
14. Nancy Wilson - "Lucky Trumble"
15. David Bowie - "I'm Waiting for the Man" (Live)
16. Cat Stevens - "The Wind"
17. Clarence Carter - "Slip Away"
18. Thunderclap Newman - "Something in the Air"

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Cultural references

• In the scene where the tour plane hits turbulence, Russell starts to sing "Peggy Sue". This is in reference to Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash while on tour. Russell then continues "Whoa baby!", referencing The Big Bopper, who died in the same plane crash.
• At the party, when he is on acid, Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a golden god!" This is a reference to Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin, who is purported to have said the same thing (sober) while looking over the Sunset Strip from a hotel balcony. Plant is referenced again in an earlier scene where Saphire (Fairuza Balk) bursts open the back door at the arena and says "Does anyone remember laughter?" much like Plant did when he would improvise during live performances of Stairway To Heaven.
• When William goes to Rolling Stone's offices, Terry Chen, playing RS music editor Ben Fong-Torres stands in front of a poster for Hunter S. Thompson's Freak Power campaign.

For the Weezer song, see Buddy Holly (song). ... LSD redirects here. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England), is an English rock singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. ... This article is about the Led Zeppelin song. ... Terry Chen was born to Chinese and Taiwanese parents. ... Ben Fong-Torres (方振豪; pinyin: Fāng Zhènháo; born January 7, 1945, in Alameda, California) is a rock journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine (through 1981) and the San Francisco Chronicle (from around 1982). ... Hunter Stockton Thompson (18 July 1937 – 20 February 2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. ...

Production notes

• Featuring over 50 songs, the film's music budget was $3.5 million. Most music budgets for films are less than $1.5 million.
• During the opening credits, the hand that's writing on the notepad belongs to Cameron Crowe.
• Stillwater's songs were written by Peter Frampton (who also had a small part in the film), Cameron Crowe and his wife Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart, a fact indicated early in the credits although the music acknowledgments credit Russell Hammond and Stillwater as if they were authors and performers.
• According to the commentary on the director's cut, Noah Taylor stayed in character as the band's manager during breaks in filming.
• Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready plays some of the guitar bits in the film.

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. ... Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950 in Beckenham, Kent) is an English musician, best known today for his solo work in the mid-1970s and as one of the original members of the band Humble Pie. ... Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson, 1993 Nancy Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. ... For other uses, see Heart (disambiguation). ... This article is about the actor; for the Desperate Housewives character, see Noah Taylor (Desperate Housewives character). ... This article is about the rock group. ... Michael Mike McCready (born April 5, 1966, in Pensacola, Florida, U.S.) is the lead guitarist and, along with Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, a founding member of the American rock band, Pearl Jam. ...

See also

• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Detroit Rock City (1999)
• The Stoned Age (1994)

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