Tanya’s Score: Good-and-a-half*
Rated: 14A
Starring: A golden child; a late night talk show host; Olive Kitteridge
Plot: A teenager (Patrick Fugit), wise and talented beyond his years, has the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour with an up-and-coming band and write a feature on them for Rolling Stone magazine.
Tanya’s Verdict: Loosely based on writer/director Cameron Crowe’s experiences as a teenage writer, this movie holds up as the well done, compelling and entertaining gem that I remember it being.
While ostensibly about the music scene of the 70s, Almost Famous is about so much more. It’s about the life lessons a slightly naive yet ambitious and persistent teenager gleans from life on the road with semi-famous rock stars and their young and beautiful fan base; it’s about a mother allowing her son freedoms so perhaps she doesn’t make the same mistake twice; it’s about the real world seeping into the fantastical bubble of a semi-famous rock group while on tour.
We watched this on family movie night – and one out of three kids enjoyed it alongside us parents.
*Four score descriptions: Sh**; Okay; Good; Great
Just rewatched this with Vinny. It was even better than I remembered. Not sure Vinny agrees