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Rushmore
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| Part No: | 6305428239 |
| Manufacturer: | Walt Disney Video |
| MFG Part: | DISD17448D |
| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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When two offbeat friends fall in love with the same woman each takes drastic measures to win her heart. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/05/2006 Starring: Jason Schwartzman Billy Murray Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Wes Anderson
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
| The Genius that is Rushmore. | 2010-03-22 | 5 / 5 |
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| Rushmore is comedic genius. A precocious young man falls for a beautiful teacher at his private boarding school. The young man is that of Max Fisher a complex romanticist. He is a play write a member of the fencing team, an avid fighter for Latin club, the idea behind the baseball diamond aquarium. He is perhaps the greatest student that has ever attended Rushmore if only in his own mind. The school administration unable to take anymore of Max's over the top behavior expell him. Bill Murray the middle aged millionaire nihilist next-door,consequently falls in love with the same said teacher and has an affair with her much to Max's horror. That can mean only one thing, war. Hilarity ensues while the two dream up ever more dastardly deeds to spring on each other. Max's world falls apart and he becomes a shell of his former self. Finally Max and Bill Murray's character make amends While at his new school he discovers a new friend and a new idea for his biggest best play ever. If you enjoy a study in life ,the human condition and quirky personality types and intelligent humor you will love this film. I know I do. |
| grades aren't everything | 2010-01-11 | 4 / 5 |
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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. |
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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.
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| What a surprize | 2009-11-26 | 4 / 5 |
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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 | 2009-10-26 | 3 / 5 |
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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 |
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