Napoleon Dynamite

Resource Information

The work Napoleon Dynamite represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Napoleon Dynamite

Statement of responsibility

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with MTV FIlms ; produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel ; written by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess ; directed by Jared Hess

Contributor

• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• MTV Films (Firm)
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Bader, Diedrich, 1966-
• Coon, Jeremy
• Covel, Sean, 1976-
• Gries, Jon, 1957-
• Heder, Jon, 1978-
• Hess, Jared, 1979-
• Hess, Jerusha
• Majorino, Tina, 1985-
• Powell, Munn
• Ramierez, Efren
• Ruell, Aaron
• Swihart, John
• trueWyatt, Chris, 1975-

Subject

• Brothers -- Drama
• French language materials
• Friendship -- Drama
• High school students -- Political activity -- United States -- Drama
• High school students -- United States -- Conduct of life -- Drama
• Italian language materials
• Japanese language materials
• Portuguese language materials
• Spanish language materials

Genre

• trueDrama
• French language materials
• Italian language materials
• Japanese language materials
• Portuguese language materials
• Spanish language materials

Language

• eng
• fre
• ita
• jpn
• por
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Napoleon Dynamite is a high school outcast in every sense of the word. Things at home are not much better. When a new student arrives, Napoleon finds friendship and performs an act of defiance that makes him a true hero

Awards note

• U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, 2004: Film Discovery Jury Award (Best Feature).
• MTV Movie Awards, 2005: MTV Movie Award (Best Movie) ; Best Musical Performance (Jon Heder) ; Breakthrough Male (Jon Heder)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music by John Swihart ; edited by Jeremy Coon ; director of photography, Munn Powell

Intended audience

Rating: PG; for thematic elements and language. Special features are not rated

Language note

English (5.1 DTS-HD master audio), Spanish, French, Portuguese (5.1 Dolby digital) Italian, Japanese (5.1 DTS-HD master audio) dialogue; Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese or Portuguese subtitles. English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Special features are not closed captioned

PerformerNote

Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Magorino with Diedrich Bader

Runtime

90

Technique

live action