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Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Original Theatrical Trailer [4K]

Napoleon Dynamite(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

Napoleon Dynamite

Awkward teen Napoleon must juggle bizarre family visitors and a chaotic door‑to‑door scheme while trying to keep his school life together, all before his grandmother’s recovery forces him to choose between responsibility and his own oddball dreams.

“He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.”

Directed by
Jared Hess
Written by
Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
95 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • AMC+

Synopsis

A disengaged teenager agrees to assist his new friend’s campaign for class president at their small western high school, while simultaneously confronting the oddities of his own family life at home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 47+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jeremy CoonShot by Munn PowellScored by John SwihartDesigned by Cory Lorenzen

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 115× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$46.1M

Budget$400K
Worldwide gross$46.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $44.5M — 97% of worldwide · International: $1.6M (3%)

Opening weekend: $117K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $211K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • Napoleon Dynamitede

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