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.
Ratings
IMDb
7/10
Rotten Tomatoes
72%
Metacritic
64/100
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
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Themes
underdoghigh schoolsibling relationshipidahochatfriendsschool dancesocial outcastaftercreditsstingersocially awkwardbased on short filmindifferent