Rushmore (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Description

The dazzling sophomore film from Wes Anderson ( Fantastic Mr. Fox ) is equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy. Tenth grader Max Fischer ( The Darjeeling Limited’s Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy’s most extracurricular student—and its least scholarly. He faces expulsion, and enters into unlikely friendships with both a lovely first-grade teacher ( The Ghost Writer’s Olivia Williams) and a melancholy self-made millionaire ( Groundhog Day’s Bill Murray, in an award-winning performance). Set to a soundtrack of classic British Invasion tunes, Rushmore defies categorization; it captures the pain and exuberance of adolescence with wit, emotional depth, and cinematic panache.