Rushmore

Rushmore

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Rushmore

Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray, Mason Gamble, Brian Cox

"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  read more... )d yearbook; founder of the debate team, the dodgeball society, and the Max Fischer Players; and president of the French club, German club, chess club, and practically everything else. Max is applying for early admission to Oxford. Harvard is his safety. However, he is also one of the worst students in the school. Threatened with expulsion, Max begins a new pursuit: falling for a first-grade teacher. But when Max's tycoon mentor starts an affair with the teacher, it triggers a war between Max and his friend.

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  • December 25, 2009
    Rushmore is Wes Anderson's sympathetic reflection about being an exceptional person at a young age, about impossible love, about male and female sensitivity, about being caught up between maturity and childhood, about music, about taking on impossible projects. All of his later f...( read more)ilms are, in one way or another, about these issues.
    But no other has the charisma of Jason Schwartzman, or quite the charm of this script:it thinks itself at times too wise for its own good, but it's instantly redeemed by its unshakable innocence and subtly contained wit. And, of course, it has a great soundtrack.
  • September 2, 2009
    This is Anderson at his best. It was easily the best 'indie comedy' of the late 90's and it really established both Anderson and Schwartzman and it also gave Bill Murray's carrier a kick up the arse too. It surprises me how many people seem to have missed this gem of a film. Bril...( read more)liant.
  • September 1, 2009
    "She was my Rushmore"

    The king of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation.

    REVIEW

    Hilarious comedy a la `Ferris Bueller's Day Off' as written by John Cheever: enterprising young Schwa...( read more)rtzman (in a memorable acting debut; son of Talia Shire) as Max Fischer, a prep school student at the titular institution ? whose ambitions are only mired by his lack of decent marks, with even higher set goals in wooing a second grade teacher played by the sexy Williams. But it is Murray who (rightfully) steals the film as a rich philanthropist who befriends Schwartzman only to betray him by also falling for his love-to-be, with a truly funny turn pulling out all the stops including slapstick falls and a great scene of depression in action at a family poolside party (one for the archives). Written by Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson (who also directed and both teamed up for their freshman gem, `Bottle Rocket') the film is smartly executed and makes even a sometimes unlikable character an empathetic symbol of adolescent anomie. Brilliant filmmaking of the high order and Murray was robbed of a justifiable Oscar nomination for supporting actor !
  • August 18, 2009
    Quirky off-beat take on teen angst that seems to get better with time. I like this one a lot more now than when I first saw it ten years ago (that may say more about me than it does about Rushmore).
  • June 26, 2009
    most importantly an excellent script and good acting from jason schwartzman. wickedly funny. a must see!
  • December 24, 2009
    this movie is an instant classic
  • December 10, 2009
    Odio il protagonista. Di per sè carino.
  • December 1, 2009
    Not as great as the Life Aquatic or Royal Tenebaums, but still very good.
  • December 1, 2009
    Brilliant sound traack
  • November 22, 2009
    There apparently is a huge audience for stuff like this, but I'm certainly not included. This is a movie that is way more concerned with being quirky and different than being compelling, entertaining or developing any good, likable characters. The movie's also way too interested ...( read more)in blaring indie rock over a bunch of montages. It's as if you can almost hear the director or whomever yelling at you bragging about how awesome their taste in music is. The movie reminded me a bit of Juno in these ways... definitely a bad thing for me, but a good thing for a lot of other people, for whatever reason.
    The "protagonist" is so unbelievably strange and unlikable, just a little more so than just about every other character. I guess what I don't understand is how so many people can like a movie that seems to be honestly portraying people's lives and social interactions, etc. as being so damn weird and seemingly so... detached from reality.

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