Twentieth anniversary of Napoleon Dynamite will be celebrated May 24 at New Design High School
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
New Design High School
350 Grand St.
Friday, May 24, free with RSVP, doors at 7:00
rooftopfilms.com
Gosh, you better not forget your ChapStick when you head to New Design High School on Friday night to help celebrate the twentieth anniversary of one of the funniest films you’ll ever see, Jared Hess’s 2004 cult classic, Napoleon Dynamite. Written by Hess and his wife, Jerusha, who later teamed up on Nacho Libre and Gentlemen Broncos, the teen comedy features Jon Heder as the title character, a strange Idaho high school student who really knows how to dance. Napoleon and his brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell), join forces to raise enough money so Kip can finally meet his online girlfriend, LaFawnduh (Shondrella Avery). Meanwhile, transfer student Pedro (Efren Ramirez) decides to run for class president against the ever-popular Summer (Haylie Duff), and Napoleon and Kip’s uncle, Rico (Jon Gries), tries to put his life back together. Anyway, it’s all great fun, and it should be awesome to see it with a devoted crowd on May 24 as Rooftop Films presents a free twentieth-anniversary screening; doors open at 7:00 with lots of Ore-Ida tater tots (hopefully not from Napoleon’s pocket), followed by the film at 8:30 and an afterparty at Boulton & Watt on Ave. A.