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Hess claims that "Napoleon Dynamite" was the name of a man he met around 2000 on the streets of Cicero, Illinois, while doing missionary work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Costello believes that Hess got the name from him, whether directly or indirectly.
Napoleon Dynamite: Directed by Jared Hess. With Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez. A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
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- Deb is based on Jerusha Hess. Jared Hess’s wife Jerusha co-wrote the film and based Deb on her own life. “Her mom made her a dress when she was going to a middle school dance and she said, ‘I hadn’t really developed yet, so my mom overcompensated and made some very large, fluffy shoulders,’” Jared told Rolling Stone.
- Napoleon's famous dance scene was the result of having extra film stock. At the end of shooting Peluca, Hess had a minute of film stock left and knew Heder liked to dance.
- Napoleon Dynamite fans still flock to Preston, Idaho to tour the movie's locations. In a 2016 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, The Preston Citizen’s circulation manager, Rhonda Gregerson, said “every summer at least 50 groups of fans walk into the office wanting to know more about the film.”
- Idaho adopted a resolution commending the filmmakers. In 2005, the Idaho legislature wrote a resolution praising Jared and Jerusha Hess and the city of Preston.
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Napoleon Dynamite is a socially awkward high school student from Preston, Idaho who lives with his older brother Kip, their grandmother, and their pet llama, Tina. Kip, 32, is unemployed and boasts of spending hours in Internet chat rooms with "babes" and training to be a cage fighter; their grandmother leads a secret life involving mysterious ...
Recently viewed. Napoleon Dynamite: Created by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Mike Scully. With Jon Heder, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino. Follows the misadventures of an awkward high school teenager and his quirky friends as they struggle to navigate life in rural Idaho.
Napoleon Dynamite is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jared and Jerusha Hess for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is based on the 2004 indie film of the same name , which both Hesses directed and co-wrote.
