RUSHMORE

Friday, August 29th and Saturday, August 30th at 10:00 p.m.
Special Labor Day weekend bonus screening, Sunday, August 31st at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
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"A true original: a film that stands apart from the crowd, goes its own way and all but dares you not to like it." - Michael Wilmington, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Director Wes Anderson's follow-up to the acclaimed BOTTLE ROCKET is a funny, warmhearted, and extremely sharp American response to the English "Angry Young Man" films of the 1960s, right down to its rocking British Invasion soundtrack.
Jason Schwartzman creates a classic cult movie hero in Max Fischer, a sophomore at Rushmore Academy. He excels at every extracurricular activity in school, from theater to beekeeping. Gradewise, however, he's failing. He has few friends outside school save for wealthy but depressed industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray, in a career-milestone performance), father of obnoxious twin boys who also attend Rushmore. Enter Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), a beautiful young widowed teacher at Rushmore Elementary. While Max is immediately smitten with Miss Cross, she finds comfort in the company of the emotionally frazzled Blume. But Max won't let Blume have Miss Cross without a fight.
With RUSHMORE, Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have created a world full of oddball humor, but with just enough realistic pain and disappointment to create an all-too-rare bittersweet edge, striking the perfect balance between hilarity and heartbreak.
Using his signature off-kilter camerawork, color palette, use of slow motion for comedic effect, and, most importantly, a brilliant selection of offbeat songs (from the likes of The Kinks, The Faces, Cat Stevens and Yves Montand) that are integral to the story, Anderson has crafted one of the true cult classic comedies of the last decade.