Comedy

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Pictures

United States of America

English

Jon Heder

Efren Ramirez

Tina Majorino

Aaron Ruell

Jon Gries

Haylie Duff

Emily Kennard Dunn

Shondrella Avery

Sandy Martin

Diedrich Bader

Carmen Brady

Trevor Snarr

Ellen Dubin

Samantha Marsden

J.C. Cunningham

James Smooth

Brian Petersen

Brent Taylor

Tom Lefler

Elizabeth Miklavcic

Jamen Gunnell

Nanette Young

Walter Platz

Nano De Silva

Arturo De Silva

Pat Donahue

Dale Critchlow

Tom Adams

Eldean Holliday

Arlando Larsen

Mari Molefe van Heerden

T.J. Adams

Jake Visser

Brady Stokes

Theodora Peeterborg

Becky Demke

Julia Ruell

Jared Hess

Sean Covel

Jeremy Coon

Chris Wyatt

John Swihart

Jerusha Hess

Munn Powell

Jory Weitz

Cory Lorenzen

Jonas Sappington

David Scharf

Curt Jensen

Steve Costanza

Daniel Demke

Isabel Farah

Tim Skousen

Duff Rich

Mark Murdoch

Joshua D. Comen

Ken Dufva

Matt Davis

Mark Linden

Darrin Mann

Tara A. Paul

Joan Rowe

Harry E. Snodgrass

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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 the prestigious class presidency. This is a little bit on the edgier side of the frequently saccharine-filled MTV movies, and Heder is actually quite good as the drippy but quite switched-on young man increasingly infatuated with "Deb" (Tina Majorino) - whose hair appears to grow at right angles from her skull! There are a few titters to be had, but I fear this hasn't aged especially well and for those non-Americans amongst us, the humour has pretty much evaporated into a series of predicable skits and characterisations that possibly challenged convention twenty years ago, but fall pretty flat in 2024. It passes ninety minutes easily enough with a soundtrack to elicit a nice dose of nostalgia for Alphaville, Cyndi Lauper and even the "A-Team" but I doubt I'd watch it again.

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.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Original Theatrical Trailer [4K]

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Jon Heder

Efren Ramirez

Tina Majorino

Aaron Ruell

Jon Gries

Haylie Duff

Emily Kennard Dunn

Shondrella Avery

Sandy Martin

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