Rushmore
Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray
"Rushmore" chronicles a year in the life of Max Fischer, a student at Rushmore Academy, one of the finest schools in the country. Max loves his prestigious school. He is the editor of the newspaper an...( read more
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DVD Released: June 29, 1999
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June 26, 2009most importantly an excellent script and good acting from jason schwartzman. wickedly funny. a must see!
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April 3, 2009this is the sort of film that i grow fonder of over time. its the little nuances that do it for me, things you dont notice the first time around but are quirky and hilarious the more you think about them. overall great comedy.
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March 19, 2009There is no film like Rushmore, Wes Anderson's unique portrayal of a year in the life of Max Fischer, a misfit teen who happens to be involved in every extracurricular activity imaginable.
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February 15, 2009Odd film that I mostly put up with because of Bill Murray. (Although I really liked the Apocalypse Now play.) Don't quite have Anderson up on the pedal everyone else does. Still I like that he has a singular voice.
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August 7, 2008I think it's more loveable than the other Wes Anderson movies I've seen. The characters are all endearing, despite their little (or not so little) flaws.
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June 28, 2009Max Fischer is a fifteen year old barber's son with so-so grades who has just made it into the exclusive Rushmore Academy, where he falls in love with Olivia Williams (I know I would, in fact I did, when she starred in "The Postman", which was a 1997 movie, while this came only a... ...( read more )
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July 18, 2007
David Edelstein, Slate
July 12, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
One of the most original, good-hearted comedies in a long time, Rushmore is the sort of movie where the strangest sequences of discords somehow keep managing to reach giddily improbable resolutions. full review
May 11, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
To call Rushmore a romantic triangle about clinical depressives doesn't allow for the film's bracing humanism. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
[Rushmore is] structured like a comedy, but there are undertones of darker themes, and I almost wish they'd allowed the plot to lead them into those shadows. full review
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
There's a sweet humanity about the picture, though it's anything but sentimental. It's odd, definitely odd. full review
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October 2, 2007Dude kinda reminds me of Tom Cruise when he was much younger.lol..I enjoyed the movie alot!
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