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Release Date: Jun 11, 2004
Running Time: 86 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
From the rural town of Preston, Idaho, comes Napoleon Dynamite. With a red 'fro, his moon boots and illegal government ninja moves, he is a new kind of hero. His family consists of fragile brother Kip, who's seeking his soul mate in online chat rooms; Uncle Rico, who is stuck in his "glory" days of high school football; and Grandma, who enjoys going out to the dunes on her quad-runner. Napoleon spends his days drawing magical beasts, working on his computer hacking skills to impress the chicks, and begrudgingly feeding his grandma's pet llama. When his friend Pedro decides to run for class president, it is Napoleon to the rescue to help him triumph over adversity.
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Napoleon Dynamite
Pedro
Uncle Rico
Kip
Deb
Summer
Ilene
Trisha
Rex
Grandma
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PETER TRAVERS -
June 2, 2004
To Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder), a nerdy Idaho white boy in a red Afro, the word signifies something sublime, like learning soul dancing and how to play nunchaku. Or the time machine his crazy Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) is building to revisit his days as a football hero. Or the ponytail his friend Deb (a fab Tina Majorino) wears on the side of her head. Or the bootylicious mama, Lafawnduh (Shondrella Avery), that his brother Kip (Aaron Ruell) finds on the Internet. Or just the fact that his Mexican…
PETER RELIC -
December 15, 2004
"I see you're drinking one percent -- is that because you think you're fat?" Not a bad lunchroom pickup line for a moon-boot-rocking supergeek from Idaho. Despite its paper-thin plot, this willfully wacky comedy wins with a climactic electric-boogaloo sequence and a cameo from a ham-eating llama.
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