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.
"He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove."
Top Billed Cast
Jon Heder
Napoleon Dynamite
Efren Ramirez
Pedro Sanchez
Tina Majorino
Deb
Aaron Ruell
Kip
Jon Gries
Uncle Rico
Sandy Martin
Grandma
Diedrich Bader
Rex
Haylie Duff
Summer Wheatley
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-01-31
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...
P portman123Verified TMDB Critic
2024-03-06
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....
