Youth and Young Manhood: The Failure of Father Figures in Almost Famous

Rik Worth
10 min readJul 10, 2020
📷 Dreamworks/Sony Pictures

Almost Famous is almost twenty. Cameron Crowe’s rock and roll coming-of-age flick follows William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a young, talented music journalist who joins up-and-coming band Still Water on tour.

The semi-biographical story gives us a glimpse into the realms of rock, love and the heartbreak of the real world. One thing William is…

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Rik Worth

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