REVIEW: ALMOST FAMOUS **** out of ****
I was very reluctant to watch Almost Famous at first, because I thought that it would be a depressing portrait of a teen's life. So, I rented it one night, 'cause I wanted to check it out and see if the critics were right and they were! Almost Famous has nudged Unbreakable to #2 on my Best Movie of 2000 list. The movie is a coming of age dramedy about this kid named William Miller (Patrick Fugit. The fact that he didn't even get nominated is a travesty!) whose sister (Zooey Deschaniel) moved out when he was a little boy. She left him her record collection and he becomes a music fan. So, now he meets Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and he sends him on an assignment to cover Stillwater. Surprisingly, his strict mom (Frances McDormand. Oscar-worthy) lets him go. He meets a groupie named Penny Lane (Kate Hudson, yet another Oscar worthy performance) who falls in love with him. It's horrible the way that the band treats her. The band is going through problems of its own. Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee. Yet another great performance) feels upstaged by Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup). The movie is a delight from start to finish. It's been a while since there has been a movie that has taken classic rock music so seriously. As a fan of that music, I love it. Rent this movie and you won't regret it. "I'm on drugs! (YAY!)...I dig music (Awkward Silence)"
I was very reluctant to watch Almost Famous at first, because I thought that it would be a depressing portrait of a teen's life. So, I rented it one night, 'cause I wanted to check it out and see if the critics were right and they were! Almost Famous has nudged Unbreakable to #2 on my Best Movie of 2000 list. The movie is a coming of age dramedy about this kid named William Miller (Patrick Fugit. The fact that he didn't even get nominated is a travesty!) whose sister (Zooey Deschaniel) moved out when he was a little boy. She left him her record collection and he becomes a music fan. So, now he meets Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and he sends him on an assignment to cover Stillwater. Surprisingly, his strict mom (Frances McDormand. Oscar-worthy) lets him go. He meets a groupie named Penny Lane (Kate Hudson, yet another Oscar worthy performance) who falls in love with him. It's horrible the way that the band treats her. The band is going through problems of its own. Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee. Yet another great performance) feels upstaged by Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup). The movie is a delight from start to finish. It's been a while since there has been a movie that has taken classic rock music so seriously. As a fan of that music, I love it. Rent this movie and you won't regret it. "I'm on drugs! (YAY!)...I dig music (Awkward Silence)"
