1998 | R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Precocious Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is the king of extracurricular activities at Rushmore Academy but also one of its worst students. With few friends his own age, he befriends a middle-aged industrialist (Bill Murray) and falls in love with a first-grade teacher (Olivia Williams). But when he finds out that his love interest and friend are having an affair, he distracts himself from impending academic expulsion by staging a full-blown theatrical vendetta. Director Wes Anderson’s second feature film cemented his emerging reputation for quirky characters and offbeat direction. Brian Cox plays the school’s long suffering headmaster, Dr. Nelson Guggenheim.

“Schwartzman is cautious but stubbornly optimistic, while Murray is possessed by the mania of near-despair. They make the best and most disconcerting odd couple that American movies have produced in a long while.” — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

“Rushmore is an almost indefinable genre of its own. A comedy with a menacing edge? An ironic romance? Hard to call. Anderson, the director and co-writer, and (Owen) Wilson, co-writer, have a vision like no one else’s.” — Desson Thompson, The Washington Post

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