He later attempts to get revenge on Rosemary by taking damaging photos of her and Blume together but learns from Guggenheim that she had already resigned. Max is eventually arrested for cutting the brake lines on Blume's car. Then he puts bees in Blume's room, leading to his running over Max's bicycle with his car. Max informs Blume's wife of her husband's affair, forcing him to move into a hotel. Max confronts Blume, declaring their friendship over, and they soon begin scrapping. Blume encourages him to give up pursuing Rosemary but eventually becomes attracted to her himself, and they begin to see each other behind Max's back.Įventually, Dirk discovers the relationship between Rosemary and Blume and informs him as payback for a rumor Max started about his mother. Eventually, Max begins to settle in and participate in extracurricular activities again, with Rosemary and Blume supporting him. Classmate Margaret Yang shows interest in him, but he ignores her. Max then attempts to court Rosemary by building an aquarium on the school's baseball field, noting her interest in marine life due to the fish tanks in her classroom and the library book by Jacques Cousteau they had both read, but is stopped by Guggenheim at the ground-breaking ceremony and subsequently expelled from Rushmore for having never sought the school's approval for the project.Īfterward, Max enrolls at Grover Cleveland High School, a local public school. Rosemary and others, including Max's younger friend Dirk Calloway, are impressed by Max's tenacity, while other students, including the brash and aggressive Magnus Buchan, resent Max's ability to manipulate authority, seemingly on a whim, to the point where the entire school body is affected. Attempting to woo her, he successfully petitions to have the Latin curriculum kept at Rushmore, and later confesses his love for her she rejects his affection due to their age difference.

Upon reading an intriguing written message left in a book he read in the library, Max tracks down the book's previous borrower, Rosemary Cross, a widowed first-grade teacher at Rushmore, and soon becomes obsessed with her. Herman befriends Max and takes him under his wing. At a school assembly, Max meets Herman Blume, a disillusioned parent and local industrialist who despises his twin sons Ronny and Donny, both students at Rushmore. Headmaster Nelson Guggenheim places him on 'sudden death academic probation', warning him that if he fails one more class, he will be expelled. Max's middle-class background, which contrasts with the wealthy and privileged lives of most Rushmore students, feeds his determination to make his name known. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.Įccentric 15-year-old scholarship student Max Fischer participates extensively in extracurricular activities at the prestigious Rushmore Academy in Houston, but struggles academically. Starting from Rushmore, Murray became one of Anderson's most frequent collaborators, appearing in his eight subsequent films. Murray also earned a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. At the 1999 Independent Spirit Awards, Anderson won the Best Director award and Murray won Best Supporting Male award. The film helped launch Schwartzman's career while establishing a 'second career' for Murray as a respected actor in independent cinema. While the box office results were modest, the film had a positive reception among film critics.

Filming began in November 1997 around Houston, Texas, and lasted 50 days, until late January 1998. The soundtrack features multiple songs by bands associated with the British Invasion of the 1960s. The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. Rushmore is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson about a teenager named Max Fischer ( Jason Schwartzman in his film debut), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume ( Bill Murray), and their shared affection for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross ( Olivia Williams).

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