Writer and director Cameron Crowe’s experiences as a teenage rock journalist – he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in high school – inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) is a bright, loving, but strict single parent whose distrust of rock music and fears about drug use have helped to drive a wedge between herself and her two children, Anita (Zooey Deschanel) and William (Patrick Fugit).

• Almost Famous
• Patrick Fugit
• Billy Crudup
• Frances McDormand
• Kate Hudson
• Jason Lee
• Anna Paquin
• Fairuza Balk
• Noah Taylor
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Cameron Crowe