Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American independent comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the eponymous character Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess's first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca.
Napoleon Dynamite was filmed in and near Preston, Idaho in the summer of 2003. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004. In June 2004 it w...
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Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American independent comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the eponymous character Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess's first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca.
Napoleon Dynamite was filmed in and near Preston, Idaho in the summer of 2003. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004. In June 2004 it was given a limited release. Its wide release followed in August. The film's total domestic gross was US $44.5 million. Considering its budget of US $400,000, Napoleon Dynamite was a huge success, grossing over one hundred times its production cost.
Napoleon Dynamite is a gawky high school student from Preston, Idaho who lives with his grandmother, his elder brother Kip and their pet llama, Tina.
Kip (Aaron Ruell), 32, is unemployed and boasts of spending hours in Internet chat rooms with 'babes' and training to be a cage fighter. Napoleon...
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