Napoleon Dynamite
- Release Date
- August 27, 2004
- Director
- Jared Hess
- Cast
- Jon Heder , Jon Gries , Aaron Ruell , Efren Ramirez , Diedrich Bader , Tina Majorino
- Runtime
- 96 minutes
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Studio
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Writers
- Jared Hess , Jerusha Hess
- Tagline
- He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.
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