The read
Every source lands within 8 points of the others, across 2,300 audience votes. Scores higher than 82% of the 2,368 2000s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes72%
Metacritic64/100
2,251 audience votes
Key crew
- Jared HessScreenplay
- John SwihartOriginal Music Composer
- Jerusha HessScreenplay
- Jared HessDirector
Cast
- Jon HederNapoleon Dynamite
- Efren RamirezPedro Sanchez
- Tina MajorinoDeb
- Aaron RuellKip
- Jon GriesUncle Rico
- Sandy MartinGrandma
- Diedrich BaderRex
- Haylie DuffSummer Wheatley
- Trevor SnarrDon
- Shondrella AveryLafawnduh
- Bracken JohnsonRandy
- Carmen BradyStarla
Stills
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Themes
underdoghigh schoolsibling relationshipidahochatfriendsschool dancesocial outcastaftercreditsstingersocially awkwardbased on short filmindifferent