Rushmore

Rushmore (1998)

  • 87% of critics liked it
    (85 reviews)

  • 91% of users liked it
    (163,084 ratings)

After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric… More

R, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By
Wes Anderson
Written By
Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 17, 1998 Wide
On DVD
Jun 29, 1999
Touchstone Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    The director treats eccentricity with compassionate respect: no winking, no nudges to even like the boy. The filmmaking, meanwhile, is beautifully disciplined.

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance.

  • David Edelstein, Slate

    What I wanted was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy.

  • Todd McCarthy, Variety

    A wickedly funny high school comedy for most of its running time, Rushmore is a bracingly fresh and original outing.

  • , Houston Chronicle

    This film is so not-from-the-cookie-cutter, so unaccommodating of our expectations, that we can't anticipate where Anderson's going to take us. Every scene is a discovery or sly diversion.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • danny d


    this 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. many of my fellow wes anderson fans love this film, and while i like it i dont… More

  • Sanjay R


    This is an off-kilter, but good movie. The unique screenplay's quirky/fast-paced humor, along with Murray and Schwartzman's performance, really carries this film. Other than those two aspects, however, there is not much else to this movie.

  • Kase V


    Wes Anderson's 'Rushmore' is fresh and original, as well as freakishly addictive. The world Anderson creates within the film is engaging and poignant. Anderson and Wilson's script is impeccable once again, but the words can only make an impact when they are… More

  • Flutie A


    I had never seen a Wes Anderson movie....until now. Surprised by how much I enjoyed this.

  • Tim S


    One can hardly find anything to complain about while watching the work of Wes Anderson, but most people do for some reason. I don't know what it is that they're expecting. The man is practically a new-age Stanley Kubrick mixed with a bit of Howard Hawks and Frank Capra. Even… More

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