Almost Heroes is a 1998 adventure comedy film directed by Christopher Guest, narrated by Guest's friend and frequent collaborator Harry Shearer, and starring Chris Farley and Matthew Perry. Leslie Edwards , a foppish, high-society aristocrat, and the loud, low-brow Bartholomew Hunt are competing against the renowned Lewis & Clark to be the first to chart and make it across the United States to the Pacific Ocean. In the beginning of the film, Edwards has high hopes to head the first expedition to make it across the U.S., but while he has ambition and funding, he has grown up sheltered and... knows little of the wilderness he seeks to cross. To aid in his journey, he hires the services of a supposedly knowledgeable wilderness-man and tracker, Hunt, who, once they get underway, turns out to be less than advertised. Aided by a crew of varied, rugged and gristled frontiersmen, they are also joined by their group's version of Sacagawea, a young Indian woman by the name Shaquinna , who is integral in helping them find their way across the dangerous and unknown terrain ahead, as well as, eventually becoming Edwards' love interest.
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| Release date: | May 29, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Christopher Guest |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Denise Di Novi |
| Editor: | Ronald Roose |
| Music by: | C. J. Vanston |
| Cinematography: | Kenneth MacMillan, Adam Kimmel |
| Screenplay by: | Mark Nutter, Boyd Hale, Tom Wolfe |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure, Western |