This movie shows that Cameron Crowe is a rare bird, too: a sunny realist.

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There was more praise for the writer on Twitter with directors Ron Howard, Wes Craven, Cameron Crowe and Darren Aronofsky leading the mass outpour of affection.

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So by all means go ahead and purchase the "Nevermind" reissue or catch a showing of Cameron Crowe's new "Pearl Jam Twenty" documentary, and relive the glories of grunge's most commercial era.

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The guy who'd won an Oscar in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film, "Jerry Maguire, " was now appearing in lackluster fare such as "Rat Race, " ''Daddy Day Camp, " ''Boat Trip, " ''Chill Factor" and "Snow Dogs.

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It felt spontaneous and goose-bumpy, like a scene in a Cameron Crowe movie, and there was something so un-Jonathan Ogden about it, all of this sudden attention upon a player who'd never chased attention down.

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The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.

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