Napoleon Dynamite PG
He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 2009
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Aaron Ruell, Jon Heder, Tina Majorino, Efren Ramirez & Jon Gries | |
Performer: | Sandy Martin, Haylie Duff & Diedrich Bader | |
Directed by | Jared Hess | |
Screenwriting by | Jerusha Hess & Jared Hess | |
Produced by | Jeremy Coon, Sean Covel & Chris Wyatt | |
Executive Production by | Jory Weitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Hess and his terrific cast -- Heder is geek perfection -- make their own kind of deadpan hilarity. You'll laugh till it hurts. Sweet.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
One-of-a-kind high school comedy for the family.
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Common Sense Media
[T]he quiet determination with which this oddball trio navigate the pressures of adolescence provide the film' most affecting moments...
Sight and Sound
Rating: A --
It actually lived up to the hype.
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Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
[O]dd, amusing....[Hess's] filmmaking style is well suited to the rhythms of small-town Western life.
New York Times
For all its charm and its impeccable leads, Napoleon Dynamite is a modish exercise in anti-cool. Still, a strong debut for all its young talents.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
This film can be utterly brilliant one minute and less than zero a second later. It's an oddball film whose attempt at mainstream seduction may make it all too easy to overrate.
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Product Description:
Jared Hess makes an unforgettable directorial debut with NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, a hilarious, tender, and utterly original portrait of a truly eccentric character. Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favorite animal, the "liger" (a combination of a lion and a tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho. At home, things aren't much better: his uber-nerd older brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell), and ultra-vain Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) are too busy with their own obsessions to give Napoleon the time of day. It isn't until a new student, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), arrives that Napoleon finds friendship and performs an act of brave defiance that makes him a true hero.
Written by Hess and his wife, Jerusha, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE brilliantly captures the awkwardness of high school without succumbing to condescension. Most of this can be attributed to Heder, who steps into Napoleon's moon boots with a jaw-dropping flawlessness. The rest of the cast is just as natural, underplaying their roles and letting the comedy unfold without forcing any of the jokes. Add a hilarious soundtrack of 1980s hits and you have an instant classic, a crowd-pleasing riot that has an undeniably universal appeal.
Written by Hess and his wife, Jerusha, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE brilliantly captures the awkwardness of high school without succumbing to condescension. Most of this can be attributed to Heder, who steps into Napoleon's moon boots with a jaw-dropping flawlessness. The rest of the cast is just as natural, underplaying their roles and letting the comedy unfold without forcing any of the jokes. Add a hilarious soundtrack of 1980s hits and you have an instant classic, a crowd-pleasing riot that has an undeniably universal appeal.
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