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Rushmore (Criterion) (1998)
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Wes Anderson's dazzling sophomore effort is equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage and screwball comedy.Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy's most extracurricular student-and its least scholarly.He faces expulsion and enters into unlikely friendships with both a lovely first-grade teacher (Olivia Williams) and a melancholy self-made millionaire (Bill Murray).Set to a soundtrack of classic British Invasion tunes, Rushmore defies categorization even as it captures the pain and exub | | |