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Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

6,8 /10 (2,162 Votes)
2004 EN 95 min

Overview

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

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Release date

11/06/2004

Votes

2,162

Popularity

2.7

He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

95 min

Budget

$400,000

Revenue

$46,118,097

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-01-31

⭐ 6

Jon Heder is the eponymous high school student who lives with his brother "Kip" (Aaron Ruell) at the home of his grandmother (Sandy Martin). Now she's a bit of a game girl and manages to come off her buggy whilst racing in the sand dunes and so their womanising tupperware salesman uncle "Rico" (Jon Gries) turns up to provide them with steak and keep them in check. "Kip" has fallen madly in love with a girl he met on the internet; his sibling - a bit of a geeky loner - alights on school newbie "Pedro" (Efren Ramirez) whom he decides to help defeat the school sweetheart "Summer" (Haylie Duff) to…

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portman123

2024-03-06

⭐ 6

Original, unique, bizarre, hilarious! * I love all the whacky and authentic and heartwarming characters from this movie. * I think it has a kind of bedroom pop vibe to it. Alot of bedroom pop music videos look and feel similar with the fashion and ideas they riff on. * I love the environment they're in. Wide open, sparse midwestern town. The American landscape is big and cool. * This movie is a brilliant example that art doesn't need a huge budget to transcend mediocrity.

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