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Starring: Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel

Directed By: Cameron Crowe

What a year it was when this is really small movie from Cameron Crowe had made it on the list of best films? It was a really low key film who no one was really sure about except for the director and some of his friends from the Rolling Stone magazine. It spanned a lifetime of work that Cameron had done for the Rolling Stone stories that really mattered and yes the music. It was just that time when everything seem to be singular. There was the Clash, Led Zep, David Bowie and several others. It was just the years of dark phases of drug abuse and those silly pants. In all this exaggeration Cameron brings out a tribute story to the listeners of Rock.

His writings as a child intrigued everyone. William the character never wrote like a 16 year old. But he made his presence felt without the handicap of his age. It was never something that was left out in Cameron’s life. He knew he had to write a story for all the Rock enthusiasts. But nothing actually turned many of the viewers off when it was a little too sugar coated for their taste. The genre itself was having a really rough patch with many dark films made about the age. The other portrayal of this age was a sexy and hazy one. None came close to a really true account. Maybe it was the choice of the music that lifted this movie to something more than the candy pop image it fell into.

William’s life as a kid growing up in an enclosed place with his Mom looking out for him was shot really tenderly. But I guess it was Still water that got me thinking of where Cameron wanted to go with this film. The band created for this movie didn’t ooze with enough energy or any singularity in its voice to take this movie home. Then why do you think I m reviewing this movie if i didn’t like it? The movie left all these things to play in the background while having something more sacred than Rock and Roll in the forefront. It was the chemistry between the Band Aid called Penny Lane played by the ever so radiant Kate Hudson and William that provided the crux of the whole story. This also gave the directors true answer to an ode to Rock and Roll. It was just their relationship that saved this movie. The things have to say for each other and the stuff they don’t they say makes this movie truly remarkable. To even watch Kate come from down to crying a bit then with a smile and asking William What was the Brand of Beer she was sold on was enough for me to never forget this film.

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