“Don’t take drugs!” Frances McDormand’s character in Almost Famous hollers after she has deposited her son, 15-year-old aspiring rock writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit), at a raucous concert in Southern California in the early 1970s. Perhaps you had to have been a member of the Just Say No club at a tiny suburban private school in the early 1990s, as I was, to fully appreciate the weight of parental expectation that accompanies McDormand’s exhortation to her teenage journalist son in the movie , which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The film’s writer-director, Cameron Crowe, excavated his experience as an adolescent correspondent for Rolling Stone for the story. But it is to his credit that he honored both William’s aspirations (wanting to slough off his mother’s w

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