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Rushmore is a 1998 movie directed by Wes Anderson. The film was shot in and around Houston, Texas where Wes Anderson grew up and even used his high school alma mater, St. John's School, as the site for the fictional Rushmore Academy.

A DVD of the movie with various supplemental materials and remastered picture and sound is available from DVD archivists The Criterion Collection.

Plot

The film is about Max Fischer (played by Jason Schwartzman), a 15 year old whose sole ambition is to attend Rushmore Academy, a private school. He is inspired by Herman J. Blume (played by Bill Murray), a rich industrialist who gives a speech at the school and has two boys who attend there. Max is known to be very active in extracurricular activities, but is a poor student. As a result of this, he is put on academic probation. At around the same time, he meets Rosemary Cross (played by Olivia Williams), an elementary school teacher with whom Max finds himself infatuated. Unfortunately for Max, Miss Cross does not share the same sentiments, and a love triangle forms when Mr. Blume begins to have the same feelings for her that Max has. Max and Mr. Blume begin to become rivals, and the two find themselves warring with one another for the affections of Miss Cross.

Awards

Rushmore won the following awards:

It was also nominated for the following awards:

Technical data

writing credits: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
music: Mark Mothersbaugh
runtime: 93 minutes
sound: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
release date: September 17, 1998 (Canada, Toronto Film Festival), October 9, 1998 (USA, premiere)
budget: $10,000,000 (estimated)
total gross (USA): $17,105,219
distributor: Buena Vista International
MPAA rating: R

Trivia

St. John's School was the filming site for the private school, while Lamar High School was the filming site for the public school. In real life, the two schools are directly across the street from one another.
The famous shot of Max sitting on the go-kart used in the "Making Time" montage is based on a photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue. Anderson would later reference Lartigue's work again in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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The penciled-in quote inside a book Max was reading is a quote attributed to Jacques-Yves Cousteau: When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. The book was Diving For Sunken Treasure, co-authored by Cousteau and Philippe Diole. In Anderson's later film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Steve Zissou's character is both a parody of and homage to Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
In the scene where Max meets Rosemary, he is carrying the book, The Powers that Be by David Halberstam, an account of the rise of journalistic media to political power.
Wes Anderson originally envisioned the entire soundtrack to be comprised of songs by The Kinks. While listening to a compilation of songs on set, though, the soundtrack eventually transformed completely, until only one Kinks song remained in the film.

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