Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Directed by Jared Hess
"Gosh!"
The weirdest movie that somehow became everyone's favorite movie. Napoleon wears moon boots and has exactly zero social skills in small-town Idaho. Pedro runs for class president. There's a llama named Tina. None of it makes sense and all of it is perfect.
This movie made awkward cool. It turned "Vote for Pedro" into a cultural phenomenon. The dance scene at the end is cinema history. If you didn't quote this movie obsessively in the mid-2000s, were you even alive?
essential tracks:
Jamiroquai - "Canned Heat"
Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy"