Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Directed by Jared Hess

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

"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"