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Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox Director: Wes Anderson Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 93 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: June 29, 1999 Theatrical Release Date: February 5, 1999 Studio: Walt Disney Video
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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: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD
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