Cameron Crowe

Along with the standard DVD version, Crowe compiled an alternate version entitled "Untitled," which was a compilation of both released footage and his favorite deleted scenes. Running for over a half hour longer than the theatrical release, "Untitled" was subtitled 'The Bootleg Cut'…

Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

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). Anita rebels by dropping out of school and becoming a stewardess, but William makes something of his love of rock & roll by writing album reviews for a local underground newspaper.

Masterworks Broadway is proud to release the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Almost Famous The Musical. The album features music by Tony, Grammy® and Pulitzer Prize® winner Tom Kitt and lyrics by Academy Award® Winner Cameron Crowe and Kitt. Starring Chris Wood, Solea Pfeiffer and Casey Likes, Almost Famous The Musical is an adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s beloved Academy Award® and BAFTA-winning film and opens on Broadway November 3, 2022.Directed by Tony Award and Olivier Award® nominee Jeremy Herrin, with book by Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous The Musical is produced by Lia Vollack and the Michael Cassel Group.

Masterworks Broadway is proud to release the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Almost Famous The Musical. The album features music by Tony®, Grammy® and Pulitzer Prize® winner Tom Kitt and lyrics by Academy Award® Winner Cameron Crowe and Kitt. Starring Chris Wood, Solea Pfeiffer and Casey Likes, Almost Famous The Musical is an adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s beloved Academy Award® and BAFTA-winning film and opens on Broadway November 3, 2022.

Whatever one may think about the films of director Cameron Crowe, the former music journalist for Rolling Stone always manages to amass amazing soundtrack albums by calling on the connections he made as one of the most artist-friendly writers in music business history. This "music from" various-artists collection is certainly no exception. Vanilla Sky, Crowe's American remake of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's film Open Your Eyes, a psychological thriller with a science fiction element starring Tom Cruise, drew mixed notices from critics and filmgoers. But not many movies have theme songs specially written by Paul McCartney (a typically melodic folk-rock ballad) or feature an artist list including tracks by R.E.M., Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Buckley, and Bob Dylan (a live acoustic take of "Fourth Time Around" from Blonde on Blonde). Lesser-known artists such as Julianna Gianna, Red House Painters, and Josh Rouse also contribute good songs. The result is an excellent mixtape, irrespective of the virtues of the cinematic complement to the music.