With a shoestring budget, offbeat characters, and a largely-unknown cast, indie comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" is one of Hollywood's most surprising success stories. "Napoleon Dynamite" was first released ...

Matt is a Utah resident but a Massachusetts native who covers movies and TV for GameRant. He also covers the NBA for Heavy and Fansided, too, if you like basketball. Almost two decades after the movie ...

Somehow, Swift's 2025 single and Napoleon's 2004 dance break were meant to be. By Ashley Iasimone Twenty years before Taylor Swift‘s “The Fate of Ophelia” was recorded, a character named Napoleon ...

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FORT WORTH, Texas — In the film Napoleon Dynamite, the goofy title character is obsessed with sweet skills like knowing your way around a pair of nunchucks because, he says, that's what girls want in ...

Before landing at BYU film school with his friend, actor Jon Heder, Jared Hess lived in Preston, Idaho. His experiences there shaped his iconic comedy, Napoleon Dynamite. It stars Heder as a nerdy ...

Everybody has their own favorite Napoleon Dynamite quote. Co-writer and director Jared Hess’ instant high school movie classic from 2004 has gone down in history as one of the most hilariously ...

Napoleon Dynamite was inspired by real events from director Jared Hess and his family's upbringing. Filming largely took place in Jared Hess' hometown of Preston, Idaho, incorporating real-life ...

The film world is full of carefully-planned projects with enormous budgets and sometimes they still flop. It can be hard to predict just what combination of acting talents, plot development, and ...

Twenty years before Taylor Swift‘s "The Fate of Ophelia" was recorded, a character named Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) was leaning into his uniqueness with a magnificently awkward dance routine, as ...