First time watching ALMOST FAMOUS | Movie Reaction!

[@adsable]

The story is based on Cameron Crowe's (Director of the movie) own experiences when touring with band The Allman Brothers.

[@jbwade5676]

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[@USCFlash]

Also touring with the Eagles, Led Zeppelin and other bands and solo artists as well!

[@camannwordsmith]

(and several others)

[@USCFlash]

@@tylermcclain5332 You are a total stalker. Truly one of the creepier folks on the internet.

[@USCFlash]

@@tylermcclain5332 You can cry "freedom of speech" when you get banned for stalking 🤣🤣🤣🤣 YT is a privately owned platform, you have no free speech here if they deem you out of line. You have been stalking her for a few weeks now. You are a pretty twisted person.

[@BouillaBased]

The "Tiny Dancer" sing along gets me every time.

[@christopherschreiber5805]

Here it is! One of my all-time favorites. Based largely on true events, this is a semi-autobiographical account of director Cameron Crowe's early days as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He was 16.

[@Bookworm-ye9qi]

He says

[@matthewbertram4312]

​@@Bookworm-ye9qi Do you have a reason to doubt him aside from just general cynicism?

[@christopherschreiber5805]

@@Bookworm-ye9qi I've read that's why his character is 15 instead. His mom really lied to him about his age. To this day, he's still not sure EXACTLY how old he is, which is pretty funny.

[@chart6454]

@@Bookworm-ye9qi we know he was about that old. Because a few years later he went undercover as a high school student to write Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He still looked young enough to pull that off.

[@MadcapMatt]

The next movie of his you should check out is called Singles. It takes place in Seattle at the height of the grunge era popularity.

[@vermithax]

So glad to see one of the top tier reactors finally making a video for this little gem. Thank you!

[@firedoc5]

I'll be the first to admit that this movie made me so envious of Cameron Crowe. LOL His experience with the legendary Allman Brothers Band and being a writer at that age would have been the ultimate experience. If I'm not mistaken, the airplane that almost crashed was the kind as the one that did crash with the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band onboard. And who could not fall in love with the character 'Penny Lane'? The soundtrack is outstanding to say the least.

[@argentokaos2629]

So there's this journalist who worked for Creem named Jaan Uhelski. She worked with--- and was good friends with--- the real Lester Bangs for years (played, of course, by the GOAT actor Philip Seymour Hoffman). When Hoffman died in 2014, she talked about her experience of meeting the main cast of "Almost Famous"--- and Philip Seymour Hoffman. She said that meeting most of the actors was just pleasant business-as-usual--- but not with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Philip Seymour Hoffman came to her not just "in character" but STILL BEING Lester Bangs. The experience was so strong she had a dream about the late Lester Bangs that night. She said Hoffman even started excitedly talking to her with his mouth full--- just like Lester Bangs did. "I never told anyone about how he used to talk with his mouth full." RIP PSH.

[@claymccoy]

Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the greatest actors of his generation.

[@Jalynfein]

Addie really fell in love with the use of "feck" didn't she?

[@dawidscheffler7152]

"Your mom freaked me out" - That woman is the poster child of "I am not mad; I am just dissapointed"

[@apatternedhorizon]

The Tiny Dancer bus scene will always be a feel good moment. "You *are* home" "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool"

[@treetopjones737]

"I’m giving back something with that movie and story. It’s all one big “Thank you.” It’s a pure message to music lovers. And to journalism, because Jann Wenner let me go off with Led Zeppelin. As well as my mom and dad. These people trusted me." - from an interview with Cameron Crowe

[@KayQue-s3r]

I graduated HS in '76 and the mid 70's was such a sad time for Rock N Roll. This movie resonates for all of us 70's post gold'ers. So good! Thank you, God for the artists of the 50's, 60's, & early 70's!

[@derred723]

"You are home" is a moment.

[@lolmao500]

Is she in Fargo? Yes yes she is. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the greatest actors ever.

[@Dave-hb7lx]

Love this movie. Great movie and as someone who graduated hs in 73 this is very representative of life in that era. Penny Lane is based on Pennie Turnbull who was a member of the Flying Garter Girls who would give self titled matchbooks to promote themselves. All the girls had nicknames. Lester Bangs( PS Hoffman) died in early 1980's of alleged valium/darvon/NyQuil od. Also, Nancy Wilson (Heart) did soundtrack and she was married to Cameron Crowe at the time. Thank you Addie, good job.

[@MrSnitchley]

Cameron Crowe wrote this based upon his own experience as a teen reporter for Rolling Stone. A few years later, he decided to take advantage of the fact that he still looked incredibly young to go under cover at a high school in order to write a book about modern teenagers. That book was itself adapted into the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont, which is well worth checking out.

[@S-jq1yk]

As an aside, there’s a great documentary on Netflix about the real Ben Fong-Torres from Rolling Stone

[@EmoDragracer]

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.” So many great conversations in this movie. One of my all time go to flicks for any mood 🤓✌️🤙

[@billrovnan8573]

Beyond thrilled seeing one of my favorite flicks on the docket! And as always, thoroughly enjoyed your reaction. Love how you respond to certain content (see the deflowering scene) with an honest humor/semi shock that rings so true that it reaches endearing. Thanks so much for giving one of my favorite films the reaction it deserves.

[@BB13131313]

One of my all-time favorites!! It's a perfect film imo, it has always meant a lot to me.. great characters, story, performances, soundtrack.. a magical film!

[@RustyRagesRegularly]

I saw this movie and immediately clicked play! I adore this movie. It’s one of my favorites. Billy Crudup is fantastic in it and Patrick Fugit is great as William Miller. Edit: Btw this is the movie that made Kate Hudson a household name. Also to a lesser extent did the same thing for Jason Lee. Also another big reason I adore this movie is cause the main characters name is Russell (Which is my name). I’m pretty sure it was the first time I heard my name in a movie (I hadn’t seen Independence Day yet). If you want an underrated movie with Anna Paquin in it to watch i highly recommend Finding Forrester. It stars Sean Connery and Rob Brown in his first ever role.

[@heyheyjk-la]

In my top ten favorite movies of all time. I was going to concerts around this same time and spending my teen years immersed in all of this music in me of the two golden ages for music.

[@simianinc]

I love the director's commentary on the DVD - Cameron Crowe does it with his mother. So much of this film is straight from his life

[@AlexSwanson-rw7cv]

This was the first movie I bought on DVD. Not because I'm in love with it (though it's good) but because it was the best option the local supermarket had and I wanted to check that my new DVD player worked.

[@Dolfan5413]

One of my all time favorite movies. Love Cameron Crowe stories.

[@Zylthis]

Haven't started yet, but I'm just saying I'm so glad you're watching this, it's one of my very favorite movies! I can't wait to see you enjoy it!

[@garmisra7841]

Go Addie! This is one of my favorite movies and always love to see reactions to it. Makes me really think I was born in the wrong decade, haha....what a time to be alive.

[@camannwordsmith]

I saw this in the theater and since then, more times than I can count. It's one of my favorite pieces of art ever made. An absolute masterpiece.

[@danhuyck527]

I couldnt agree more with this statement. 100%

[@MrGpschmidt]

Crowe's masterpiece and the power of music. I so relate to this but more with movies. So yeah.

[@lolmao500]

Jason Lee saying all the secrets in the plane about to crash reminds me of Mallrats, when Jason Lee's character starts telling this story about one dude on a plane about to crash starting cranking it like theres no tomorrow lol...

[@Bekka_Noyb]

such an amazing movie! dbl ♥ Now whenever I hear Tiny Dancer I think of that scene on the bus

[@joannmartinez9589]

One of my favorite movies

[@cobrallama6236]

One of my top 10 favorite films of all time! Cameron Crowe's films from the late 90s and early 00s are so good. Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky are both excellent too. Definitely check those out!

[@harrydoupe9315]

Good one again, Addie! One more quick tidbit to add to all the others already mentioned - when William is looking in all the cabs to try and find Penny, and he pauses at one with a guy reading the newspaper, that's the actual Jann Wenner, the original publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, and the one who gave Cameron Crowe his break.

[@ThistleAndSea]

Love this movie, so good! Glad you enjoyed it too, Addie. Thanks for sharing this one!

[@TheBriguy33]

So glad you finally saw this film. I think it's 1 everyone should see at least once. 1 of my all time favorites 25 years later. Saw this in the theater in the summer of 2000. A feel good story, great characters, fantastic music. It's funny that you thought of Tony Danza when hearing Tiny Dancer lol. There is also a Bootleg cut of this movie with an additional 40 minutes of scenes.

[@blatherama]

The phone call with Russel and Mom is one of my favorite moments. Russel's change from "HEY MOM!" to "Yes, Mm. Yes, Mm." is great work by Billy Crudup.

[@ericmarois6960]

I didn't know how much I loved Kate Hudson until I saw this movie. I had no doubt at all after I saw it the first time. Also Frances McDormand plays a strict mom like nobody else.

[@roryowens9703]

Philip Seymour Hoffman should have had an Oscar for this performance. He's so good as Lester Bangs, and brings the bombast, the pathos and the supportive mentoring, in just a handful of scenes.

[@rorybisson756]

this movie is important for a couple of reasons 1) the cast and who they "grow-up" to be 2) because the Tiny Dancer at the end actually reignited Eltons career on some level because while commercially not a successful move, its very much one of the biggest cult classics. oh and because of what the others said about the Director's experiences with The Allman Brothers band.

[@zmarko]

Patrick Fugit also had a smaller role in the David Fincher film Gone Girl, which is a great thriller/drama that you should definitely check out.

[@jim6070]

Great reaction to a great movie. Being a kid around William's age during the 70s, and hanging out with my older brother's band all the time, they captured the feel of the time perfectly. I found the Tiny Dancer bus scene to be one the best scenes in film history.

[@mikealvarez2322]

So glad to see your channel growing. It's really no wonder since your reactions are so enjoyable. You add so much by your reactions and this one is no exception.❤😊

[@pedroV2003]

Glad you enjoyed it. It’s a family favorite around here.

[@dgillphotos]

Yeah - thanks for the cry! Such a beautiful film. The Tiny Dancer scene - family, forgiveness, acceptance... sigh. Every time. "You are home" - DONE!

[@pauwoo]

In my top 5 favourite movies of all time I wish reactors would watch untitled instead. I know it's not in the video but the scene were they are talking about Morocco and William says to Penny ask me again, that was Patrick saying to Kate say the line again as he didn't like the first take, Cameron Crowe loved it and left it in, At the graduation the woman on the stage with pink hat is Cameron Crowe's mother who Elaine is based on .

[@scottrabie]

Hi from Edmonton! This is my favorite movie of all time. I challenge anyone to watch the scene where William tells Penny about the bet and being sold to Humble Pie for $50 and a case of beer, where she goes from angry to hurt to asking, "What kind of beer" to smiling with tear rolling down her cheek and not fall for her. At least a little. Thanks for reacting to it, this is great!

[@SCharlesDennicon]

"The mom looks so familiar" Addie, who's been reacting to movies for years.

[@IDLERACER]

😎👍 In real life, Frances McDormand is married to one of the Coen brothers. In addition to "Fargo," she's also in "Raising Arizona" and a couple more of their movies.

[@stevenklyce3555]

Fabulous insight from inside the Rock&Roll whirlwind in the 70s. So lucky for me and my friends, we were eyewitness to scores of concerts that felt just like the film.

[@countgeekula9143]

A great film. The Tiny Dancer bus sequence is one of the greatest sequences in modern cinema.

[@treetopjones737]

C.C. said they shot it with a topless bus, so they were coming in from above with a rig, weren't in their faces and didn't have to do constant cuts, so they were more relaxed and natural.

[@charger70s]

The quote I'll Never Tell was actually from the tagline film "Don't Say a Word."

[@MikeBrown7799B]

Hello Addie!😊 Great reactions to this fun musical time in history!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@paulcurlin2789]

Great movie! Love the Tiny Dancer scene and also Fairuza Balk - "Deflower!"

[@LanternCastVIDS]

One of my top five favorite films of all time. "I need to go home!" "You ARE home." Or "Lesters" line "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." I got 'Sapphire' aka Fairuza Balk to send me a personalized custom autograph on a shot of her character from the movie. (she has her own website where you can request/purchase that if you want one too!)

[@jshizzle6866]

Fun reaction, thanks. Always find your reactions entertaining. This is one of those movies that if I find it while surfing I’ll watch it no matter where it’s at in the story. I’m always amused that Stevie Wonders’ My Cherie Amour is playing when she’s getting her stomach pumped.😆

[@xtldc]

One of the best coming-of-age movies of all time!!

[@8014rick]

LFG! This is going to be amazing!

[@dan_hitchman007]

My favorite version of the film is the "Untitled" director's cut.

[@MarioMarioD80]

ooh nice! great movie. don't know why theres not more people watching this

[@gregmcdonald8962]

"11?!!"😆 This Is one of my all time favourites, top ten for sure. I look forward to future use of your newfound F word loophole!🤣

[@bigdream_dreambig]

32:52 Pennie Ann Trumbull a.k.a. Pennie Lane was 18-19 in 1973 (born July 1954).

[@Dave-hb7lx]

Another really good Frances McDormand movie would be "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". McDormand and Sam Rockwell won Oscars.

[@msmrsro]

Young William is played by Michael Angarano, whom you might recognize from so many other things when he’s a bit older.

[@619superbadmovie]

That is Francis McDermott playing the mother and I know her last name is spelled wrong

[@magicbrownie1357]

Easily one of the best rock and roll films of all time. Great writing, directing and performances.

[@jbwade5676]

This is all your fault

[@pauls.anderson5553]

For some reason, I see Addie incorporating Feck you into a lot of future reactions!! Love this movie and love your reaction!!

[@VonBlade]

Ah now I'm gonna have Tiny Dancer in my head all week.

[@lloydonlead]

Anna Paquin is an Oscar winner for The Piano. And Sookie Stackhouse in HBO'S True Blood.

[@ariconsul]

The only thing missing in this movie is a cameo by Tony Danza.

[@yeralvalenzuela2317]

Wow! one my Favorite comedy movies thanks for uploading te video Addie I Love Thist Movie thank You =) 🤯🥳😃

[@aTofuJunkie]

Anna Paquin was in 1993's The Piano, where she won Best Supporting Actress at 11 years of age. Fly Away Home (1996) is where her career really took off. Anna Paquin was awesome in this movie. (Pardon the pun.) 🤣

[@aTofuJunkie]

TRUE STORY, too. Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, and a bunch of Ducks. 🤣

[@SteelCurtain024]

Billy Crudup is an amazing actor. He can really play guitar. Rudderless, William H. Macy’s directorial debut, Billy plays the guitar a lot. The first movie I saw Billy in was Sleepers with an A list cast. Minnie Driver, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Billy Crudup & more. 😉🤘🏻

[@josephmayo3253]

Good reaction Addie. This is my favorite Kate Hudson role.

[@fajenthygia5760]

This feels like a forgotten movie. It was so huge when I was in high school, but it hardly ever comes up anymore...

[@patrickcrippen880]

Billy Crudup. "Without Limits" 1998. True story and an amazing performance by him and Donald Sutherland

[@AngelusNZ]

This is one of my all time favourite guilty pleasure films.

[@619superbadmovie]

He’s only a teenager through this movie

[@e.jamesshepard7183]

My all time favorite movie. Have literally watched this movie every other month since the Untitled edition(cut scenes) since i got the CD in Early 2002. Came with the 6 songs attributed to the band Stillwater. Alot of great nusicians did those songs like Nancy Wilson from Heart ( Cameron Crowe's real life wife) and Peter Frampton

[@treetopjones737]

C.C. with wife Nancy wrote some of them together.

[@619superbadmovie]

And Pequin was in true blood also

[@marleybob3157]

One of my favorite movies. Of course, I lived through these years...

[@ravensshadow2179]

Now it's time for This is Spinal Tap

[@randyhochstein8455]

One of the greatest soundtracks ever. ✌🏼😎🇺🇸

[@eolsunder]

an excellent movie, original, great cast, and a great story.

[@charliea1224]

“Lock the gates!”

[@awakeningcry]

YES! Definitely in my all-time top 3... because I can't pick between them 😂 Fan canon says that Wiliam never saw Penny again, but he and Polexia (Anna Paquin) got together. You should definitely try and watch the director's cut after the cinematic release, a whole 35 mins more!!

[@scottp.5055]

This is my favorite movie of all time. I remember watching it for the first time in college👏👏👏

[@chart6454]

Great reaction. More people should react to it!

[@WINGATE14]

Man, I love this movie

[@xtldc]

33:00 I don’t think it’s ever explicitly stated, but given Penny Lane’s conversation with William, I think we are meant to assume that she is approximately William’s age - (15-16) - but we are also told that the Stillwater band wants her around again ‘like last summer’, meaning that she’s been hanging around the band at least since she was 14-15. This is probably quite shocking to modern audiences, but there were actually a couple of real life super-groupies in the 70s (who are the inspiration for the band-aids) who hung around with all the top bands and rock stars and had sex with many of them. Just to list a few - Liv Tyler’s mother Bebe Buell started dating a long list of famous rock stars when she was 14-15, Lori Mattix started hanging around the LA rock clubs when was she 13 and says she had sexual encounters with Jimmy Page and David Bowie by the time she was 14, and Sable Starr claims to have lost her virginity to the guitarist of the band Spirit when she was 12.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

Pennie Ann Trumbull a.k.a. Pennie Lane was 18-19 in 1973 (born July 1954).

[@xtldc]

I realize that - but this movie is dealing with characters that are partially based on real people and from the conversation she has with William the first time they meet (in this movie), the audience is being told to assume that she is 15 or 16.

[@619superbadmovie]

Great reaction

[@FeaturingRob]

Addie, You have now seen my favorite movie of all time. It's the autobiography of writer-director Cameron Crowe, based on events in his life at this time, fictionalized here and there. It won Crowe the Oscar for Best Screenplay. My favorite scene is the "Tiny Dancer" scene (16:04), Which gets me every time. Crowe adapted the film for the stage a few years ago and turned it into a musical, using many of the same tracks in the film with original songs... Tiny Dancer was one of the songs that made it into the show. William Miller was played by Patrick Fugit, who made his film debut in this movie. He had only ever done high school theater before he was cast. There is a blooper in the scene where Penny asks William if he wants to come with her to Morocco. She asks him, and he says yes, then he says, "Ask me again." She does, and he responds more enthusiastically. "Ask me again" is not William...it's Patrick, and Crowe loved it so much he left it in. The opening credits, where the names are hand-written, are an homage to one of Crowe's favorite films, To Kill A Mockingbird (the movie that Elaine and Young William have just seen in the first scene). Crowe's handwriting the names, and Frances McDormand got a kick out of her name being misspelled, erased, and re-written because that also happens in the credits of To Kill A Mockingbird. The score for the movie was written by Nancy Wilson, guitarist of the band Heart. She was married to Crowe at the time, and she also wrote the songs for Stillwater. I have a DVD of the Director's Cut, The Bootleg Edition, that included a 4 song EP of Stillwater's songs, including Fever Dog and Love Comes and Goes, both feature in the movie. At 20:09, the close-up of Reg, the manager of Humble Pie (who was real), is played by the legendary guitarist and singer Peter Frampton (Show Me the Way, Baby I Love the Way, and other hits). Frampton was one of the many people Crowe profiled for Rolling Stone during the 1970s and was part of the film to help Billy Crudup (Russell Hammond) learn guitar (which he never really figured out).

[@treetopjones737]

Baby, I Love Your Way

[@RobertJuzstone]

This movie is a "Love Letter" to the 1970s Hard Rock scene.

[@mattlovell4213]

I hate it when vid thumbnails have a red line at the bottom, it makes me think I've already watched it. Luckily I noticed it was only 24 minutes old.

[@FrancisXLord]

Same. Addie needs to rethink that border on her thumbnails.

[@d4mdcykey]

Then I'd say pay closer attention, it is clearly a multicolored border around the entire thumbnail; that is unless you think the red line would also extend on the whole left vertical side, which is...weird.

[@ajschroetlin2196]

Fantastic flick, especially if you love music. Tons of great performances.

[@theendistheend123]

one of my favorite movies.

[@CataRDJ]

I love this movie so much!

[@bgfundy]

It would be easy to think Russell getting shocked onstage is a "wild, made-up thing out of a movie," but back then it was very possible. I won't get into the nerdy details, but the safety standards we use onstage nowadays for power and audio wiring make it next to impossible, if you're doing your job right, but back in the '60s and '70s it was very easy and possible for a crap promoter to not make sure all the equipment was properly grounded...so it would be possible for a guitarist to touch his strings and the mic at the same time and suddenly become the ground that higher voltage electricity can pass through. I myself have felt low level electrical vibes (i.e., tingly lips) when playing and instrument and touching my lips to a mic grille.

[@glyngasson8450]

Reg the roadie is Peter Frampton, he wrote all the Stillwater songs for the film

[@sharkey25uk]

and Reg is the Road manager for Humble Pie, Peter's old band

[@awakeningcry]

not all of them, most were written by Nancy Wilson of Heart. He wrote "You Had To Be There"

[@kevinmassey1164]

I think you’re going to really like this…a lot….even more if youre into music from the era