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Rushmore

1998

Wes Anderson

Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel ...

6.8

13,961

Comedy Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Paul Hamilos The Guardian	"[Anderson's] direction is perfect. He doesn't force his characters to be weird. He just lets them be."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"[It] is something of an anomaly in American independent film, a funny and original entry in the seemingly exhausted tradition of quirky, low-budget road comedies"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Rushmore' is packed with richly realized characters (...) Credit the film’s startling originality to director Wes Anderson"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] has a kind of effortless grace (...) When plotting replaces stage-setting and character development, the air goes out of the movie (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"Offbeat and off centre highschool movie with acerbic one liners delivered by a superb cast. A real treat (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It's too smart to be maudlin"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's hard to explain why this movie is so enjoyable (...) If Anderson and Wilson continue working together, they stand to carve themselves a special corner of their own, as the Coen brothers have"	POS
United Kingdom	Joanna Berry Radio Times	"Schwartzman gives a superbly nerdy performance, but Bill Murray (...) steals every scene in this quirky, edgy and very funny tale (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Craig D. Lindsey Paste Magazine	"Released right before teen movies like 'She’s All That', '10 Things I Hate About You' and the raunchy 'AF American Pie' became all the rage, Wes Anderson’s 'Rushmore' gave us a coming-of-age tale that’s surreal, romantic and, somehow, more honest than all those films"	POS

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