According to his ambition and deep love for music and musicians, a young teenager high school student named William Miller, who once has a chance to write an essay about the famous band of Stillwater, so he has to accompany the band Inna tour, the thing that inspires his life, as he learns great lessons.
Cameron Crowe's thinly fictionalized autobiography is deftly poised between rosy affection, thoughtful remembrance, and giddy adolescent awe. As perhaps it should be.
This is the celluloid version of a glossy magazine feature -- easily perused, modestly entertaining, the kind of piece designed to please the publisher by not taxing (or offending) the reader.
A blissfully sweet coming-of-age movie in which everyone, young and less young, comes of age.
L.A. Weekly
October 03, 2002
The film shimmers with the irresistible pleasures that define Hollywood at its best -- it's polished like glass, funny, knowing and bright, and filled with characters whose lives are invariably sexier and more purposeful than our own.
