Napoleon Dynamite was rated PG "In this case, I think art imitates life," said Heder, who got to know Hess when they were both filmmaking students at Brigham Young University.

This weekend, watch one of these three underrated movies on HBO Max: Napoleon Dynamite, a charming romantic dramedy, and a ...

—Napoleon Dynamite. ... and his mustachioed 33-year-old brother Kip, played by Aaron Ruell. Napoleon has ... Perhaps some of the film’s eccentricities are explained by its status as outsider art.

Napoleon — the name suggests parentage of some wit, although no Dynamite parent makes an appearance — would have been a piquant extra in the background of a ”Mean Girls” lunchroom scene.

The best Napoleon Dynamite quotes celebrate awkward teens in high school with hilarity and deadpan delivery. Many characters, from Napoleon to Kip to Uncle Rico, deliver lines that become ...

Napoleon’s brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell, who reprised the role in Fox’s animated and largely forgotten TV show based on the movie), does not do anything to make his day any better.

The quirky, quotable 2004 indie pic Napoleon Dynamite was filmed on a budget of just $400,000, but it became a sleeper hit and an enduring cringe-comedy classic. The tale of a teenage nerd growing ...

ChapStick, llamas, and tater tots are just a few things that appear in Napoleon Dynamite, a cult film shot for a mere $400,000 that went on to gross $44.5 million.In 2002, Brigham Young University ...

In 2004, a quirky comedy called 'Napoleon Dynamite' exploded. Twenty years later, the stars, coming to Englewood's bergenPAC, discuss the fallout ...