Bill Murray acts as a millionaire, Mr. Blume, whose two children attend Rushmore Academy with a boy called Max. Murray's character becomes a mentor to the offbeat teen. Then strange thing happens! Both of them fall in love to a teacher!
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Jason Schwartman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox,
Connie Nelson
Release Date:
11 December 1998 (NY & LA Special Engagement)
5 February 1999 (Nationwide)
Merchandize:
DVD
Criterion Collection (Rabbit's Recommendation)
Special Features:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Commentary by co-writer/director Wes Anderson, co-writer Owen Wilson and star Jason
Schwartzman
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Wes Anderson's Hand-Drawn Storyboards, Plus a Film-To-Storyboard Comparison
• Cast Audition Footage: Jason Schwartzman, Sara Tanaka, Stephen McCole, Ronnie &
Keith McCawley and Mason Gamble
• Featurettes: The Making of Rushmore, an exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by
Eric Chase Anderson & The Charlie Rose Show, featuring Wes Anderson and Bill Murray
• Max Fischer Players Present: Theatrical "adaptations" of Armageddon, The
Truman Show & Out of Sight, staged especially for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards
• Plus!: props, posters, photos & other graphic ephemera, Special Poster Insert
(a map of Rushmore's key events)
• Widescreen anamorphic format
DVD
Regular Edition
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Widescreen letterbox format
Songs:
1. Hardest Geometry Problem in the World - Mark Mothersbaugh
2. Making Time - Creation
3. Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2
4. Nothing In This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl - The Kinks
5. Sharp Little Guy - Mark Mothersbaugh
6. The Lad With the Silver Button - Mark Mothersbaugh
7. A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
8. Edward Appleby (In Memoriam) - Mark Mothersbaugh
9. Here Comes My Baby - Cat Stevens
10. A Quick One While He's Away - The Who
11. 'Snowflake Music' From Bottlerocket - Mark Mothersbaugh
12. Piranhas are a Very Tricky Species - Mark Mothersbaugh
13. Blinuet - Zoot Sims
14. Friends Like You, Who Needs Friends - Mark Mothersbaugh
15. Rue St. Vincent - Yves Montand
16. Kite Flying Society - Mark Mothersbaugh
17. The Wind - Cat Stevens
18. Oh Yoko - John Lennon
19. Ooh La La - The Faces
20. Margaret Yang's Theme - Mark Mothersbaugh
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1. Bill heads to Rushmore. (16 October 1997) (The full story)
2. 2. The August issue of Premiere Magazine reported that Rushmore is
going to come out in
October, which is not true.
3. The 26 September and 2 October issues of Entertainment Weekly features two
photos of Bill
Murray in Rushmore and one even said Bill Murray is at his best in this movie and needs an
award!!!
4. Director Wes Anderson said that he wrote the role of Mr. Blume in the stroy for Bill,
and now he
really does the role! At first, he doesn't know if Bill will really do the movie or not,
they're so
surprising when Bill accepts that. He said Bill's salary for the movie is $9 million,
which is nearly the
whole budget of the movie.
5. Anderson also said that he thought of Bill Murray for Bottle Rocket at first,
but he never replies.
6. Rushmore receives great reviews from New York and Toronto Film Festivals.
7. December issue of Rolling Stone reserves an Oscar for Murray. Giving
Murray the place of Best Supporting Actor.
8. Murray won National Board of Review Best Supporting Actor Runner-up Award.
9. Murray won Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle Best
Supporting Actor Awards.
10. Murray is nominated Best Supporting Actor by Golden Globe and Golden Satellites.
11. Bill won Golden Satellite Award!
12. Murray is nominated for Chicago Film Critics Award.
13. Murray won the American Comedy Award for funniest supporting performance.
14. Unfortunately, Murray is not nominated for an Oscar.
Full List of Awards & Nominations: IMDB
Budget: $10m (USA), $22m (later)
Production Date: 21 November 1998
Box Office:
Opening Weekend: $43,666 (USA) (13 December 1998) (2 screens)
Second Opening Weekend: $1,841,793 (USA) (5 February 1999) (103 screens)
Third Expanded Opening Weekend: $3.739m (USA) (14 February 1999) (573 screens)
Fourth Expanded Opening Weekend: $2.805m (USA) (21 February 1999) (764 screens)
$9.759m (USA) (21 February 1999)
$6.274m (USA) (14 February 1999)
$1.923m (USA) (7 February 1999)
$43,666 (USA) (13 December 1998)
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A Cartoon From New Yorker
Murray is diving for an Oscar nomination.
Murray and Schwartzman. (EW)
A perfect pair of Misfit.
Building the aquarium
(Left to right): Jason, Bill and Olivia Williams
The bicycle man!
Murray and Schwartzman building the aquarium.
A very rareRushmore Murray Award Ad
A more usual Rushmore ad
Wes Anderson having happy time with Murray and Schwartzamn.
An ad of Murray with his new buddy Wes Anderson.
It seems that Rushmore will be a great movie! We've even got a message that says Bill is anxious awaiting for it! More information will be updated very soon, or you can send something about this movie (real news, rumors, and whatever) to [email protected].
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