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Directed by	Jared Hess
Produced by	Jeremy Coon Sean Covel Chris Wyatt
Written by	Jared Hess Jerusha Hess
Starring	Jon Heder Efren Ramirez Tina Majorino Aaron Ruell Jon Gries Emily Tyndall Austyn Goldring
Music by	John Swihart
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures (USA, Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, Brazil) Paramount Pictures (all other areas, through United International Pictures)
Release date(s)	June 11, 2004
Running time	92 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US$400,000
Gross revenue	US$158,600,956
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Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 independent film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the main character, Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess's first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick McManus August 25, 1954) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Jared Hess (born 1979, Preston, Idaho) is a American filmmaker known best for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which he co-wrote and directed. ... Jeremy Coon grew up in Richardson, Texas, graduating from Berkner High School in 1997. ... Sean Covel (born March 4, 1976 in South Dakota) is an American film producer. ... Jared Hess (born 1979, Preston, Idaho) is a American filmmaker known best for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which he co-wrote and directed. ... Jared Hess (born July 18, 1979 in Preston, Idaho) and Jerusha Hess (née Demke) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers best known for their work Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which they co-wrote and directed. ... Jonathan Joseph Heder (born October 26, 1977)[1] is an American actor and filmmaker. ... Efren Ramirez (born October 2, 1973[1] in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. ... Majorino in Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 Tina Marie Majorino[1] (born February 7, 1985) is an American film and television actress. ... Aaron Ruell (born 1976) is an American actor who grew up in Clovis, California, and is most noted for his performances as Kipland Ronald Dynamite (or Kip) in the indie movie Napoleon Dynamite. ... Jon Gries (born June 17, 1957 in Glendale, California) is an American actor, writer and director. ... Emily Tyndall is an American actress and dancer from Utah, who made her acting debut in Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, under her maiden name Emily Kennard. ... Fox Searchlight Pictures logo. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures (owned by Viacom) and Universal Studios (owned by NBC Universal), to distribute some of the two studios films outside United States (including territories) and Canada. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ... An independent film (or indie film) is a film produced without the support of a major movie studio or a big budget. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Jared Hess (born 1979, Preston, Idaho) is a American filmmaker known best for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which he co-wrote and directed. ... Jared Hess (born July 18, 1979 in Preston, Idaho) and Jerusha Hess (née Demke) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers best known for their work Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which they co-wrote and directed. ... Jonathan Joseph Heder (born October 26, 1977)[1] is an American actor and filmmaker. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... Peluca is a short film by director Jared Hess, produced for an assignment during his tenure at Brigham Young University in 2003. ...

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.^[1] Considering its budget of US $400,000, Napoleon Dynamite was a huge success, grossing over one hundred times its production cost. The film is rated PG by the MPAA and by the television content rating system in the United States. Preston is a city located in Franklin County, Idaho, United States. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the state of Utah in the United States. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...

Plot

The film centers around a teenager named Napoleon, his 32-year old brother Kip, his Uncle Rico, and his friends Deb, for whom he catches a delicious bass, and Pedro, who can get 3 feet of air on his awesome bike with shocks and pegs. Napoleon is an underachiever in school who prefers doodling fantastical creatures such as ligers to paying attention in class. His family treats him dismissively. For other uses, see Liger (disambiguation). ...

Napoleon soon meets Pedro, a new student at his school. Later on, Pedro decides to run for school president and Napoleon becomes Pedro's "campaign manager" and "bodyguard". Meanwhile, Napoleon himself tries to get a date with Trisha, a "popular" girl he barely knows. Napoleon tries to win Trisha's affections by drawing a picture of her from the yearbook. The drawing is hysterically bad, but Napoleon is very proud of it, as he is of all his "artwork"; he seems to be blissfully unaware of how horrible his drawing skills really are. Trisha is forced to go to the dance with Napoleon because Trisha's mother feels bad for him, mostly due to comments from Napoleon's Uncle Rico. When Trisha leaves Napoleon at the dance to hang out with her popular friends, which include Summer (who also runs for president), Napoleon ends up with Pedro's date, Deb.

Meanwhile, Napoleon and Kip's Uncle Rico comes to stay with them while their grandmother is in the hospital with a broken coccyx. Kip and Rico soon try to make money by selling plasticware, and Rico goes on to humiliate Napoleon and estrange Deb by trying to sell her herbal enhancers, telling her that Napoleon said she could use them. Kip begins dating a woman named LaFawnduh,^[2] whom he met in an Internet chatroom. Kip and LaFawnduh get married at the end of the film (in a post-closing credits sequence that was inserted into the film as its theatrical release went wider). LaFawnduh has a mix tape of dance music that she lets Napoleon borrow. The coccyx is formed of up to five vertebrae. ...

When the time comes for all of the class presidential candidates to present their speeches, Pedro and Napoleon are taken by surprise when they discover that along with the speech, each candidate must perform a skit. Summer makes a bigoted comment about Latinos and does a dancing routine with friends to a Backstreet Boys song. Thinking quickly, Napoleon takes the dance tape out from his tape player and hands it to the man playing the music. Just before Pedro decides to drop out of the election race due to not having a skit, Napoleon enters the stage with his practiced dance routine to support Pedro, which unexpectedly generates enormous acclaim from the student audience and a wide smile from Deb. A montage of scenes show Kip and LaFawnduh in love and heading out of town together, Grandma kissing her beloved llama, Tina, a broken-down Uncle Rico sees his girlfriend return to him, and Pedro and his family celebrating his electoral victory. The conclusion of the film shows Napoleon playing tetherball alone, as always, until Deb walks up and nods when Napolean asks if she wants to play. This article is about the band. ... A game of tetherball Tetherball is a game for two opposing players. ...

Characters

• Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) the film's protagonist, is a rather clumsy teenager who enjoys mundane diversions such as drawing, drinking milk, eating Tater Tots, and playing tetherball. As the film progresses, Napoleon develops an interest in hip-hop dancing, which proves valuable. He wears vintage t-shirts, tucked into jeans that are worn high and without a belt; black moon boots (though there is an obvious lack of snow); and steel-rimmed glasses that accentuate his nerdy appearance and gap-mouthed under-bite and tight, curly, almost permed hair. His awkward appearance and behavior are the source of much of the film's comedy. He is active in the FFA and his school's sign language club (the "Happy Hands Club"). His best (and only) friends are Pedro and Deb. Napoleon frequently lies about his abilities to impress his peers. For example, he claims that he spent his summer vacation with his "uncle in Alaska" hunting wolverines with a 12-gauge shotgun. He also claims to have "numbchuck" and bostaff skills, and to know all the "illegal ninja moves from the government."
• Pedro Sanchez (Efren Ramirez) is a new student to Preston High, originally from Juarez, Mexico. He is occasionally the target of mild antagonism from the school principal. His campaign for class president is one of the main plot points in the film. His cousins (credited as Cholo #1 and Cholo #2) assist Pedro in earning the students' loyalty by protecting a boy from a bully. About halfway through the film, Pedro shaves his head, and henceforth wears a woman's wig. Pedro can be described at first as having no personality or emotions whatsoever (he wears a blank stare and speaks in monotone throughout the entire film), but is eventually cheerful when he wins the election.
• Deborah "Deb" (Tina Majorino) is a shy and awkward schoolmate and friend of Napoleon. She goes door-to-door selling "Deb's Glamor Shots" and homemade boondoggle keychains, "a must-have for this season's fashion". Deb seems to be the most articulate character among the three friends in the film. Throughout the film it seems Deb likes Napoleon very much.
• Kip Dynamite (Aaron Ruell) is Napoleon's wimpy older brother (according to Napoleon, he is "like 32 years old") who enjoys chatting with women in chat rooms. He and Napoleon live with their grandmother. In one chat room he meets a woman named LaFawnduh Lucas (Shondrella Avery), and in a post-credits scene, they wed. His full name is revealed at the wedding.
• Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) is the self-absorbed uncle of Napoleon and Kip. When first seen, Rico is living in a large orange 1975 Dodge "Santana" van in the middle of a field. He played football in high school ("back in 1982"), and is constantly living in the past. He is often seen filming himself passing footballs to nobody for no apparent reason. Rico longs to go back in time and change his fortune; certain he had the potential to join the National Football League, if only his coach had played him. He ostensibly cares for Kip and Napoleon while their grandmother is in the hospital with a broken coccyx, but it is apparent that he is just freeloading on Napoleon's family, as Napoleon appears to be about 17 years old and Kip is full-grown and could be as old as 32. Rico is frequently eating steak throughout the film. At one point during his stay, he and Kip make several money-making schemes, which Kip quits after LaFawnduh comes into his life. The schemes end badly, when Rico tries to sell herbal enhancers to a Tae-kwon-do teacher's wife.

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Setting

Preston, Idaho, is a real town located near the Utah border. Since the release of Napoleon Dynamite, it has become a tourist attraction of sorts, with Preston High School being a main feature. Also with its premier in 2004, Preston has held a Napoleon Dynamite Festival every summer to celebrate the filming of Napoleon Dynamite in Preston and nearby towns. In April 2005, the Idaho state legislature approved a resolution commending the filmmakers for producing Napoleon Dynamite, specifically enumerating the benefits the movie has brought to Idaho, as well as for showcasing various aspects of Idaho's culture and economy. Part of the film is filmed in Calhan, Colorado, a small town that is about 40 miles east of Colorado Springs.^[3] Preston is a city located in Franklin County, Idaho, United States. ... Preston High School is the name of other schools in the United States. ... Napoleon Dynamite Festival is an event that takes place during the summer season (except for the 2004 festival) in Preston, Idaho, since the film Napoleon Dynamite was released in 2004. ...

The film displays some quirky references to Mormon popular culture, such as Napoleon wearing a yellow Ricks College T-shirt (now known as BYU Idaho), and Napoleon's use of euphemisms and minced oaths in place of profanity (which is characteristic of, though not exclusive to, Latter-day Saint circles). Brigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-Idaho, or BYUI) is a four-year university owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_day Saints, located in Rexburg, Idaho. ... A euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener;[1] or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ... A minced oath, also known as a pseudo-profanity, is an expression based on a profanity which has been altered to reduce or remove the disagreeable or objectionable characteristics of the original expression; for example, gosh used instead of God, darn instead of damn,heck instead of hell and freaking... A Latter-day Saint is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ...

In the DVD extras, there is an interview with Jon Heder in which he jokes that perhaps Napoleon and Deb may be "sealed for time and all eternity" — a reference to the Latter-day Saint belief in "eternal marriage" or "sealing" performed in the Church’s temples. The principal's reference to "Juarez" — where he assumes Pedro is from — may be a reference to Ciudad Juárez, a city on the United States–Mexico border. Napoleon buys his suit at Deseret Industries, a thrift store operated by the LDS Church. At the same time, Roman Catholic iconography is used for scenes where Pedro's house can be seen due to the strong religious influence in Mexican culture. Ciudad Juárez, or simply Juárez, is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua formerly known as El Paso del Norte. ... The border between Mexico and the United States spans four U.S. states, six Mexican states, and has over twenty commercial railroad crossings. ... Deseret Industries is both a non-profit, vocational rehabilitation facility and a thrift store. ... Window display in a UK charity shop. ... For other uses, see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (disambiguation). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Look up Iconography in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

While the film is set in the present day, it contains many parachronisms, all of which highlight the town's awkward, behind-the-times quality. For example, the music playing at the school dance is from the 1980s, featuring "Forever Young" by Alphaville and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". Other vestiges of earlier decades include fashion trends that reflect those of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Napoleon's moon boots and Deb's side ponytail. Another example of 1980s fashion includes the bolo ties that Pedro and Lyle wear. The top-loading VCR in the Dynamite residence resembles those from the early 1980s. Throwbacks to the 1990s include music by Backstreet Boys (Summer's Happy Hands Club performing to Max Martin and Jay Orpin's "Larger than Life"), and music by Jamiroquai used in the choreography of Pedro's skit (their song "Canned Heat" is used for the scene in which Napoleon dances). Also, the TV resembles a 1990s model, and some of the shows resemble 1999 pop culture, especially the exercise commercials. The type of imitation Tupperware Uncle Rico is seen selling door-to-door has not been available for purchase for many years. The grandmother's house phone, a slim-line wall-mounted telephone with 25-foot extension cord, was first available in the early 1970s. Kip does use the Internet for dating and Rico uses it to purchase a "time machine." However, the style of computer is arguably from the mid- to late-1990s, and he uses a dial up internet service that charges users by the minute, a practice uncommon in the United States since the late 1990s.^{[citation needed]} The music playing in the Pontiac is the 1980s funk song "So Ruff, So Tuff" by Zapp & Roger. Finally, Napoleon's school ID card, as shown in the opening credits, clearly reads "2004/2005," unambiguously setting the movie in the present day, despite the film's abundance of elements suggesting otherwise. (When asked when it takes place, the director simply stated, "Idaho.")^{[citation needed]} Director Hess said in another interview that the anachronisms could be explained simply by how long it took for trends to make their way over the mountains to Preston. A parachronism (from the Greek φαρά, on the side, and χόνος, time) is anything that appears in a temporal context in which, though not sufficiently out of place as to be impossible, is not normally found in that time period. ... Forever Young was the title track from German rock/synthpop group Alphavilles 1984 debut album. ... Alphaville is a German synthpop/-rock music group which gained popularity in the 1980s. ... Cynthia Ann Stephanie Cyndi Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American Grammy Award- winning singer, MTV VMA-winning video and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. ... Time After Time was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her Shes So Unusual album, and it reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts on June 9, 1984. ... Moon Boots were created in the early 1970s by Footwear manufacturer Tecnica of Giavera del Montello, Italy. ... This article is about the band. ... Martin Karl Max Martin Sandberg (born February 26, 1971) is a Grammy-nominated,[1] Swedish pop-dance music producer and songwriter. ... Jay Orpin is a Swedish songwriter and producer, who is team up with Max Martin in Cherion He also write songs and produce for The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Robyn, Ace of Base and Britney Spears. ... Jamiroquai is a Grammy Award-winning English funk / soul / disco band. ... Tupperware logo A Tupperware storage container. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... Dial-up access is a form of Internet access via telephone line. ... This article is about Pontiac automobiles; for the Native American leader, see Chief Pontiac, for other uses see the Pontiac (disambiguation). ... Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band) was a soul and funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman , Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, and Terry Troutman, and also included Bobby Glover, Eddie Barber, Jannetta Boyce, Jerome Derrickson, Sherman Fleetwood, Gregory Jackson, and Michael Warren. ... An identity document, or also called a piece of identification (ID), is a document designed to verify aspects of a persons identity. ... Opening credits, in a television program, motion picture or videogame, are shown at the beginning of a show and list the most important members of the production. ...

Reaction

Critics were somewhat divided in their opinions of Napoleon Dynamite. Some praised the movie for its unconventional humor, while others decried the film for much the same reason. It garnered a 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, ^[4] but prominent film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a scathing 1 1/2 stars, while his site users gave the movie 3 stars.^[5] This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice praised the film as "an epic, magisterially observed pastiche on all-American geekhood, flooring the competition with a petulant shove."^[6] This article is about a New York newspaper. ...

Nevertheless, the cultural impact on American youth was extensive. T-shirts patterned after some of the odd clothing in the movie (such as the "Vote for Pedro" shirt) and other clothing with quotes and lines from the movie are numerous. The film has inspired a bevy of offbeat quotes and somewhat of a cult following. This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or cult in its original sense of religious practice. See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term cult. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of pop culture. ...

References to other works

Napoleon and Kip attend a kickboxing class that they see advertised on television, and while there the instructor refers to Kip as Peter Pan, an odd reference that has resonance in the film. Napoleon and Kip have failed to grow up for the first part of the film, to the extent that they may require Uncle Rico to watch them in their grandmothers' absence. Uncle Rico who "lives in the past" has also failed to grow up. None of the three can sustain adult relationships or seem motivated to change. As the film unfolds, each of them finds the ability to sustain relationships and mature into adults. This article is about the play by J.M. Barrie. ...

References in other works

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• Jon Heder reprised his role as Napoleon Dynamite for a special spoof video made exclusively for Microsoft, featuring Bill Gates. The video, titled "Bill Gates Goes to College", was shown at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in 2005. It was also shown when Bill Gates visited the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, on October 13, 2005.^[7] Heder also reprised his role on Late Show with David Letterman to read the Top Ten list of "Signs You're Not the Most Popular Guy in Your High School" the day of the DVD release. ^[8]
• In 2005, ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's unveiled a new flavor entitled "Neapolitan Dynamite", a pun on the film's title.
• The New York Mets used the phrase "Vote for Pedro" to encourage fans to fill out All-Star ballots in 2005 for Mets players such as pitcher Pedro Martínez. It should be noted that fans only vote for position players; pitchers are selected by the All-Star managers. The San Francisco Giants also staged a similar campaign for utility infielder-outfielder Pedro Feliz, who was not eligible for the ballot because he did not regularly play any one position.
• Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez reprised their roles in a Robot Chicken sketch entitled "Napoleon Bonamite", in which Napoleon acts in a similar manner Napoleon I of France.
• In The Burning Crusade, the official expansion to World of Warcraft, male Blood Elves do the same dance as Napoleon did in the movie when the player types "/dance".
• In the MMO Guild Wars: Factions, male ritualists perform the Napoleon Dynamite dance as their dance emote.
• In the South Park episode "Trapped in the Closet", Stan tells Tom Cruise that he isn't as good as that guy who played Napoleon Dynamite.
• An episode of That's So Raven, entitled "The Way They Were", features a ticket salesman who acts and behaves like Napoleon, yet his appearance resembles Kip Dynamite.
• Sobe Green Tea quotes, "Do Lizards Have Large Talons?" under its screw-on cap. This is a reference to the scene at the chicken farm when Napoleon asks, "Do the chickens have large talons?"
• Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo stated "do the chickens have large talons" to inspire him to spell the word "chinook" correctly during the National Spelling Bee Competition.^[9]
• Brie Larson parodies Napoleon Dynamite in her video for the song "She Said". He is seen saying "God!" although Napoleon uses the word "Gosh!" many times in the movie.
• Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez reprised their roles in a series of commercials for the 150th Utah State Fair in 2005.^[10]
• Angry Alien Productions parody the film in their 30 second "bunnified" sketch.^[11]
• Several musicians have songs named after the movie, including KJ-52, The Hussy's, and Mos Def.
• This movie was spoofed in the opening scene of Date Movie. Josh Meyers played the Napolean role, but his dress and speaking style were so accurate many fans were convinced Jon Heder had reprised his role.
• On the Canadian animated show Total Drama Island, one of the contestants, Harold, seems to be designed after Napoleon Dynamite, even going so far as to use his catchphrase "Gosh!".
• As noted elsewhere, the origin of the title of the film is uncertain, and had been regarded as questionable. The pseudonymous reference in 1986 as "Napoleon Dynamite" on Elvis Costello's album Blood And Chocolate (Costello's name being a pseudonym itself) is echoed in a 10/86 California concert of Costello's, which exists in an audience audio recording. During the final encore, while naming the musicians (which included guest Huey Lewis, whose band Clover played on the first Costello LP), the singer thanks "Mr. Napoleon Dynamite". Unless another, earlier reference to the singular name surfaces, the alleged separate origin of the name (as claimed by Jared Hess) remains highly specious and unproven, with no supportive example to prove his assertion.
• Independent Professional wrestling manager and presidential candidate Vinnie Ferrari had a promotional T-shirt that said "To hell with Pedro" on the front and "Vote for Vinnie" on the back in the same red typeface as the shirt in the movie.
• In the KidsWB cartoon Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, two scientists for the villain "Phidious Phives" strongly resemble Napoleon and Kip in appearance, voice, and nerdy style.
• In the Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends' episode Cheese A Go-Go, a scientist at the end of the episode talks much like Napoleon with the same voice, and looks a lot like Napoleon.

• Efren Ramirez reprises his character in an episode of George Lopez (TV series). George's daughter Carmen runs for student body president of her high school, and is ultimately defeated by Efren's character (who was nameless). In the episode, Efren's shirt read "Don't Vote For Carmen", rather than "Vote for Pedro".

• In the episode "The Fifth and a Half Sense" of Canadian cartoon Being Ian a cartoon version of Napoleon is seen playing tether ball.
• Microsoft produced a corporate video spoofing the movie, having Bill Gates playing the role of Kip, and Jon Heder reprising his role as Napoleon.

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Awards

• Best Feature Film at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival the same year. The film's budget was only $400,000. When the film rights were sold to a major distributor, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox supplied additional funds for the post-credits scene.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2005, it won three MTV Movie Awards, for Breakthrough Male Performance, Best Musical Performance, and Best Movie. This film is number 14 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".^{[citation needed]}
• It won the 2005 Golden Trailer Awards for Best Comedy.
• It won the 2005 Golden Satellite Award for Best Original Score (John Swihart).
• Four awards at the Teen Choice Awards. Best Movie Breakout Performance - Female for Haylie Duff, Best Movie Dance Scene, Best Movie Hissy Fit for Jon Heder, and Best Comedy.
• The 2004 Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Feature.

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Soundtrack

Main article: Napoleon Dynamite original soundtrack

An asterisk(*) denotes a song that is not in the soundtrack album. The Napoleon Dynamite original soundtrack is the soundtrack to the movie, Napoleon Dynamite. ...

• "We're Going to Be Friends" by The White Stripes*
• "A-Team Theme"
• "Forever Young" by Alphaville
• "Larger than Life" by Backstreet Boys*
• "Design" by Fiction Company
• "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai
• "So Ruff, So Tuff" by Zapp and Roger*
• "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper (covered by Sparkle motion on soundtrack)
• "The Rose" by Bette Midler*
• "Light in Your Eyes" by Sheryl Crow*
• "Music for a Found Harmonium" by Patrick Street*
• "The Promise" by When in Rome

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See also

• Peluca
• Napoleon Dynamite Festival
• Napoleon Dynamite: The Game

Peluca is a short film by director Jared Hess, produced for an assignment during his tenure at Brigham Young University in 2003. ... Napoleon Dynamite Festival is an event that takes place during the summer season (except for the 2004 festival) in Preston, Idaho, since the film Napoleon Dynamite was released in 2004. ...

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