Stars: Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Fairuza Balk, Anna Paquin, Bijou Phillips, Anna Paquin, Zooey Deschanel, Patrick Fugit, Jimmy Fallon, John Fedevich, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Kozelek

Director: Cameron Crowe

Summary: High school student William is invited to interview an up-and-coming rock band by Rolling Stone magazine. Whilst on the assignment he is drawn into the band's world and there he learns a valuable lesson about life.

Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock band featuring lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) and charismatic lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and writing about it for Rolling Stone magazine, whose editors are unaware of his young age. Though Miller's mentor, legendary rock critic Lester Bangs--portrayed with humor and heart by Philip Seymour Hoffman--cautions him not to befriend the musicians, Miller takes it a step further and befriends both the band and the Band-Aids--the girls who hang around with the band because they love the music. Newcomer Fugit is the perfect William Miller: baby-faced, slightly gawky, and an awestruck observer. Kate Hudson sparkles as Penny Lane, the leader of the Band-Aids, and Frances McDormand delivers a stellar performance as Elaine, Miller's protective and mildly paranoid mother. In the tradition of SAY ANYTHING and JERRY MAGUIRE, Crowe's coming-of-age tale is intelligent, well written, and infused with humor in unlikely places.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.85 H D Widescreen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region B
Special Features:	Featurette, Interview with Lester Bangs
Subtitles:	Croatian, Icelandic, Thai, Spanish Latin American, Romanian, Slovene, Hebrew, Slovak, Mandarin, Portuguese Brazilian, Korean, Hindi, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Year:	2000
Release Date:	February 11, 2008
Runtime:	122 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S B R 32180
Keywords:	Almost, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Famous, Romantic, Drama
Genre:	Drama