Rushmore - Criterion Collection |  | Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 14171
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 715515010429
ISBN: 0788818791
UPC: 786936770100
EAN: 9780788818790
ASIN: B00003Q42P
Theatrical Release Date: February 5, 1999
Release Date: January 18, 2000
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Product Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-JAN-2000
Media Type: DVD
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Wes Anderson's follow-up to the quirky Bottle Rocket is a wonderfully unorthodox coming-of-age story that ranks with Harold and Maude and The Graduate in the pantheon of timeless cult classics. Jason Schwartzman (son of Talia Shire and nephew of Francis Coppola) stars as Max Fischer, a 15-year-old attending the prestigious Rushmore Academy on scholarship, where he's failing all of his classes but is the superstar of the school's extracurricular activities (head of the drama club, the beekeeper club, the fencing club...). Possessing boundless confidence and chutzpah, as well as an aura of authority he seems to have been born with, Max finds two unlikely soulmates in his permutations at Rushmore: industrial magnate and Rushmore alumnus Herman Blume (Bill Murray) and first-grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). His alliance with Blume and crush on Miss Cross, however, are thrown out of kilter by his expulsion from Rushmore, and a budding romance between the two adults that threatens Max's own designs on the lovely schoolteacher. Never stooping to sentimentality or schmaltz, Anderson and cowriter Owen Wilson have fashioned a wickedly intelligent and wildly funny tale of young adulthood that hits all the right notes in its mix of melancholy and optimism. As played by Schwartzman, Max is both immediately endearing and ferociously irritating: smarter than all the adults around him, with little sense of his shortcomings, he's an unstoppable dynamo who commands grudging respect despite his outlandish projects (including a school play about Vietnam). Murray, as the tycoon who determinedly wages war with Max for the affections of Miss Cross, is a revelation of middle-aged resignation. Disgusted with his family, his life, and himself, he's turned around by both Max's antagonism and Miss Cross's love. Williams is equally affecting as the teacher who still carries a torch for her dead husband, and the superb supporting cast also includes Seymour Cassel as Max's barber father, Brian Cox as the frustrated headmaster of Rushmore, and a hilarious Mason Gamble as Max's young charge. Put this one on your shelf of modern masterpieces. --Mark Englehart
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 grades aren't everything January 11, 2010
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
This movie has something for everyone.
The boy playwright has his adventures in the real world.
He has a mental age far in advance of his physical age,
so that he is drawn to an older woman,
a teacher. There begins his downfall
and regeneration as an honest man.
Some of the comedy is very well done.
There is an understated effect to the young genius
who can move mountains when he gets his act right.
 Genius January 10, 2010
Vladdy Trout (Florida, USA)
Rushmore is the best movie of that long ago decade known as the 1990s. I love the overall style of this movie, a style that has since become the standard for Wes Anderson movies.
The visual style is brilliant: deliberate tracking shots, centered wide angle shots.
The musical style: classic pop/rock music from the 1960s and 1970s.
The acting style: quirky and understated.
I have watched Rushmore many times and am never bored. Rushmore is like its main characters, Max Fisher and Herman Blume, in that it is equal parts genius, melancholy, lonely, and, ultimately, sweet.
What a surprize November 26, 2009
C. Wilson (SCAPPOOSE, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't have good writing skills,I hate it that I didn't pay much attention to it
in school.Fortunately,I don't need it in the field of hospital work,haha,won't say what kind.
But..here is what I want to say.
I loved this movie !! The story was so original and quirky.
I was hooked right away,#1 I love Jason Schwartzman !
And to have a twofer in one movie..Bill Murray !!
The story was delightful,the music was superb,cast superb.
There was one tiny spot where it lagged just for a minute.
Again,this is a keeper.
 Hit and miss comedy from Anderson October 26, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
I understand why this movie has generated such a cult around it, but if you don't go into this film pre-disposed to like it you might well be disappointed by Wes Anderson's second offering, a film that generates some laughs but a lot more awkward moments (mainly intentionally); I feel somewhat guilty giving this film a tepid review because I can see why its fans love it even though I don't, but Jason Schwartzman is so annoying that even Bill Murray can't make up for him and the movie just didn't work for me.
2.5/4
Long, but quirky & funny November 5, 2008
J. Dudley (Mineral Wells, TX USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is really a funny and at times touching film. It's a bit overlong, but Bill Murray and the other actors are great. I really liked this movie. Definately not for those that don't like to think.
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