An embellished roman à clef from Crowe’s early days as a precocious young reporter for Rolling Stone, Almost Famous follows the teenage William Miller (Patrick Fugit) on tour with his favorite band, the Allman Brothers–esque Stillwater. Along the way, Miller learns valuable life lessons about women, fame and friendship and falls hopelessly in love with “band-aid” Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). But the movie — a paean to the 1970s and to rock music’s more innocent adolescence — can be pretty much boiled down to a single, sun-drenched scene: the Stillwater gang on the tour bus, singing along to Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer.” As the wide-eyed Miller desperately attempts to convince the group that he has to go home, Penny Lane turns to him and says, “You are home.”
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