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Comedy 95 min PG
Rotten Tomatoes72%Metacritic64IMDb
He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.
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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Comic, warm, effortless and cool.
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How Napoleon Dynamite Took the Edge Out of the Indie
Broey Deschanel · Aug 2025
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The title character of Jared Hess's willfully odd, often amusing debut feature is a high-school misfit in Preston, Idaho, Mr. Hess's hometown. The director has a fine sense of place and regards the quirks and delusions of this remote rural town with a native's mixture of affection and impatience. The film, written by…
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37 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists; disliked most by The Thrill Chasers.
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