Rushmore (1998) on Netflix
Fifteen-year-old Max Fischer runs Rushmore Academy's clubs and plays, though his grades lag. He falls for Rosemary Cross, a first-grade teacher, and turns to industrialist Herman Blume.
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Plot summary
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 into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film.
Cast
- Dipak Pallanaas Mr. Adams (as Deepak Pallana)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rushmore (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Max Fischer is partly modeled on co-writer Owen Wilson, who like Max was expelled from his own preparatory school, St. Mark's School of Texas, in tenth grade, and shared his ambition, lack of academic drive and crush on an older woman.
- Anderson and Wilson wrote the role of Mr. Blume for Bill Murray but doubted they could reach him; his agent, a fan of Anderson's debut Bottle Rocket, urged him to read the script, and Murray liked it enough to work for scale pay, which Anderson estimated at around $9,000.
- When Disney refused to fund a $75,000 helicopter shot of Max and Mr. Blume, Bill Murray personally offered Wes Anderson a blank check to cover it, though the scene ended up never being filmed at all.
- An early idea to give classmate Margaret Yang a wooden finger, lost in a science experiment, was cut from Rushmore but resurfaced years later as Margot Tenenbaum's wooden finger in Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.
- Disney executives nearly cut the film's French New Wave-influenced opening montage, believing its rapid short shots were an unnecessary expense given the restrictive budget and schedule.
