Factual error: This is a wardrobe error... in the next morning scene after William has been deflowered, he is still in his Fruit of the Looms, which have the name printed on the elastic waistband. Fruit of the Loom did not print their name on waistbands like this until the 90s, in the 70s they just had single blue and yellow stripes. (01:08:27)
Almost Famous (2000)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Frances McDormand, Jason Lee, Kate Hudson, Anna Paquin, Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit
Penny dumps Russell, and tricks him to go to William's house when he thought it was her address. Russell also calls Rolling Stone and confirms all of the previously denied facts in William's article, it gets published, and Stillwater go on their first headlining tour. They ditch the plane and go back to Doris the bus. Penny finally leaves for Morocco.
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Lester Bangs: The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet.
Alice Wisdom: I like The Doors.
Lester Bangs: Give me The Guess Who. They got the courage to be drunken buffoons, which makes them poetic.
Trivia: When Penny Lane asks William to go with her to "wherever", she asks him twice. The first time William didn't like the way he said it, so he asked her to ask him again while the cameras were still rolling. Cameron Crowe like it so much that he kept the entire sequence in the film.
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Chosen answer: The film was loosely based on Cameron Crowe's experiences with The Allman Brothers Band.
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