Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Sam-953-169285 This is not a "coming of age" story. It is a story about a kid being a brat that thinks he is entitled to do whatever he wants to do. It is about a teenage boy and an adult teacher behaving badly. "Coming of age" implies it is typical behavior but the boy's behavior is not typical.There is not much romance or anything like that. I won't spoil the story by saying what it is but it is not romance.It has moments; I like it when the characters are totally honest, not to be mean but just to be honest.It does move slowly at times.It does however mellow out toward the end. If the rest of the movie were as mellow as the end then the movie would be better. I would have liked it better and I think more people would also have liked it more.

oOoBarracuda Bill Murray wants an Oscar so bad, doesn't he? Nothing made Bill Murray's turn toward more Academy Award-worthy roles so clear as his role in the 1998 film, Rushmore. Written and directed by Wes Anderson, Rushmore also stars Jason Schwartzman and Olivia Williams. Rushmore is the coming-of-age tale of a college prep student who does not excel in academics who decides to be involved in every extracurricular activity the school offers. His whole life revolves around his school until he learns he is on academic probation. I understand that many people love Wes Anderson, and consider this film to be his darling, I didn't care for it, nor did I find it meaningful in its desperate half effort to be meaningful. Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) the self-proclaimed king of extracurricular activities at Rushmore, a private college-preparatory academy. Max's problem, however, is that despite the number of activities he is involved in, he has no people skills and hasn't mastered the art of friendship or even decency. He uses everyone around him to his benefit and therefore alienates himself at every turn. When he learns that his academic probation means that if he were to fail one more class, Max sees his life flash before his eyes. When a personal quest to discover who defaced one of Rushmore's library books, Max meets and instantly falls in love with Mrs. Calloway (Connie Nielsen) who begins an affair with Max's friend and parent of twin Rushmore students Herman Blume (Bill Murray). Broken hearted and betrayed, Max begins a quest to ruin the lives of those who hurt him, ruining his own in the process when he is expelled from Rushmore. Bill Murray has the depth of a sheet of paper in every role that I have seen of his, and it doesn't work for me. I'd much rather see him in the stands at Wrigley than in a film. Rushmore is a film that is trying to be important and artsy yet falls flat. Every unlikable character the audience meets is given only half of a backstory preventing any real connection to any of them. I'm just not at all a fan of anything Rushmore or its director Wes Anderson is trying to do in this film.

lasttimeisaw Wes Anderson's sophomore feature, RUSHMORE is the name of an elite prep school in Houston, and our protagonist, a 15-year-old Max Fischer (Schwartzman), is the whip-smart prodigy in Rushmore, a high-school specimen of GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997), but only if it were true, that's just a figment of his imagination in the film's jaunty opening, in reality, he is a barber's son, although, to hide his deep-down low self-confidence, Max brags about that his father is a successful surgeon. Max is granted entrance to Rushmore for his playwright talent, but he flunks in almost every major subject, while a plethora of extracurricular activities corroborates that Max is not made of scholarly material. As a matter of fact, he is on the verge of being expelled from the school by the headmaster Dr. Guggenheim (Cox), but that doesn't bother him too much, he befriends Herman Blume (Murray), the father of his objectionable twin classmates, an industrialist whose life is hemmed in a lull of disillusion. Also, reaching prepubescence lands him his first crush on the newly arrived first-grade teacher, Rosemary Cross (Williams), a widow from England, but she doesn't reciprocate her feeling due to their age difference, and, spontaneously they remain in a mutually agreed friend zone. Turning sour when Rosemary brings a date to his new school play, Max unveils his age-defying megalomaniac side which riles Rosemary and pours cold water on their budding affinity. Soon Max is as expected being expelled and enrolls into a public school, and falls out with his younger sidekick Dirk Calloway (Gamble). When he finds out Herman and Rosemary becomes an item, a puerile tit-for-tac game of sabotages kick-starts with the typical Anderson-esque moxie, sandwiched between those two man-children, one is too young and another is too old, and neither is proper to her taste, one does feel sorry for Ms. Cross. Luckily, in a well-intention-ed move, Max writes a new play paying tribute to Herman's Vietnam days, and finally, all the hatchets have been buried in the opening night of the play, Rushmore days are gone with the wind, Max finds an age- commensurate Asian girlfriend Margaret Young (Tanaka), Herman and Rosemary also reconcile. Playing out Max's defects and merits with deadpan but farcical felicity, a pint-size Schwartzman under-girds his stereotypical screen-image in his screen-debut, self-consciously loquacious and obnoxiously self-centred. Bill Murray, whose stalled career has received a critical boost since he meets Anderson and becomes a prominent figure in the latter's ever-expanding star-studded troupe, brings about what a great farceur can achieve, subtle humor saddled with immeasurable humanity, he is pitch-perfect. Olivia Williams, an incongruent English rose involuntarily gets involved with Anderson's characteristic American levity and recklessness, instils a somewhat bracing air of wholesome sensibility.The script is written by Anderson and Owen Wilson, and an indie-tinged soundtrack faithfully punctuates the narrative especially in its longueur, RUSHMORE is Anderson's arch epigraph commemorating his unconventional youth and a launch pad of his distinctively quirky aesthetic pursuit, although in a primordial but prophetic fashion.

zafar142007 This is one of the better coming-of-age comedies I have seen. Max is a troubled but gifted teenager, who is trying to make his way through school. He is a natural leader, and easily makes friends with adults twice his age. The adults around him recognize his situation, and give him a lot of leeway to adjust. Trouble begins to brew when he develops strong feelings for a teacher, and his friend Herman (Bill Murray) gets involved in it too. The performances of the three main characters are superb. The characters appear real and engaging. The story remains simple, but interesting. Max is a smart kid, and he uses his talents to get what he wants. Bill Murray's acting is laudable, because not once did it feel unreal to have a forty-something man acting as a messenger for a fifteen year old boy. Herman understands him, and he allows Max time to hate and love him. It is a comedy, yes, but it is the complete package.You tend to empathize with the lonely yet gifted childhood, laugh at the deadpan humour of Bill Murray, and hope for a happy ending.