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Napoleon Dynamite

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Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American comedy film produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel and Jory Weitz, written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and directed by Jared Hess. [1]

104 relations: Aaron Ruell, Algorithm, Alphaville (band), American Sign Language, Anachronism, Black and white, Blood & Chocolate, Bravo (U.S. TV network), Brigham Young University, Campervan, Canned Heat (song), ChapStick, Charity shop, Chat room, Chris Wyatt (producer), Cicero, Illinois, Coccyx, Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Comedy film, Compact Cassette, Cult following, Daydream, Deadpan, Deseret News, Detroit, Dial-up Internet access, Diedrich Bader, Distribution (marketing), Efren Ramirez, Ellen Dubin, Elvis Costello, Emily Dunn (actress), Entertainment Weekly, Extra (acting), Flixster, Forever Young (Alphaville song), Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Franklin County, Idaho, Get-rich-quick scheme, Golden Trailer Awards, Hand model, Haylie Duff, Hip hop, Hip hop music, I Heart Huckabees, Idaho, Jamiroquai, Jared and Jerusha Hess, Jeremy Coon, ..., John Swihart, Jon Gries, Jon Heder, Lemonhead (candy), Liger, Limited release, Lost in Translation (film), Mexico, Mike Scully, Missionary (LDS Church), Mixed martial arts, Moon Boot, MTV Films, MTV Movie & TV Awards, Napoleon Dynamite: The Game, National FFA Organization, Paramount Home Media Distribution, Paramount Pictures, Peluca, Peter Travers, Ponytail, Post-credits scene, Preston, Idaho, Regent University, Review aggregator, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, Rotten Tomatoes, Sandy Martin, Satellite Awards, Sean Covel, Shondrella Avery, Short film, Slamdance Film Festival, Standing ovation, Stereogum, Summary judgment, Sundance Film Festival, Teen Choice Awards, Tetherball, The Christian Science Monitor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The New York Times, The Rose (song), The Village Voice, The Washington Post, Tina Majorino, Utah, VHS, Videocassette recorder, Walkman, 16 mm film, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Television. Expand index (54 more) »

Aaron Ruell

Derek Aaron Ruell (born June 23, 1976 in Fresno, California), is an American director and photographer.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems.

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Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synthpop/new wave band which gained popularity in the 1980s.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Anachronism

An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time") is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods of time.

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Black and white

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.

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Blood & Chocolate

Blood & Chocolate is the eleventh studio album by the British rock singer and songwriter Elvis Costello, released in the United Kingdom as Demon Records XFIEND 80, and in the United States as Columbia 40518.

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Bravo (U.S. TV network)

Bravo is an American cable and satellite television network, launched on December 1, 1980.

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Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private, non-profit research university in Provo, Utah, United States completely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) and run under the auspices of its Church Educational System.

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Campervan

A campervan (or camper van), sometimes referred to as a camper, or a caravanette, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.

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Canned Heat (song)

"Canned Heat" is the second single from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai's fourth studio album, Synkronized, released in 1999.

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ChapStick

ChapStick is a brand name of lip balm manufactured by Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and used in many countries worldwide.

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Charity shop

A charity shop or thrift shop is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.

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Chat room

The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.

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Chris Wyatt (producer)

Christopher Aaron Wyatt, sometimes credited as Chris "Doc" Wyatt, (born October 5, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, writer, and second unit director.

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Cicero, Illinois

Cicero (originally known as Hawthorne) is a suburb of Chicago and an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Coccyx

The coccyx, commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the vertebral column in humans and apes, and certain other mammals such as horses.

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Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua

Colonia Juárez is a small town in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Daydream

Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.

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Deadpan

Deadpan, dry humor or dry wit describes the deliberate display of a lack of or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dial-up Internet access

Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.

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Diedrich Bader

Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian best known for appearing in comedies, including the films The Beverly Hillbillies, Office Space, EuroTrip and Napoleon Dynamite and the sitcoms The Drew Carey Show, Veep, Outsourced and American Housewife.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.

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Efren Ramirez

Efrain Antonio Ramírez (born October 2, 1973) is an American actor and DJ, best known for playing Pedro Sánchez in the 2004 indie film Napoleon Dynamite.

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Ellen Dubin

Ellen Dubin is a Canadian actress.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Emily Dunn (actress)

Emily Dunn (née Kennard; formerly Tyndall; born March 15, 1982) is an American actress and dancer from Salt Lake City, Utah, who made her acting debut in Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, under her maiden name Emily Kennard.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Extra (acting)

A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene).

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social movie site for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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Forever Young (Alphaville song)

"Forever Young" is a song from German-American synthpop group Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Fox Searchlight Pictures

Fox Searchlight Pictures is an American film production company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox.

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Franklin County, Idaho

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho.

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Get-rich-quick scheme

A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment.

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Golden Trailer Awards

The Golden Trailer Awards is an annual awards show that honors achievements in motion picture marketing, including film trailers, posters and television advertisements.

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Hand model

A hand model is a person who models (poses or displays) their hand or hands for the purposes of art, fashion, products or advertising.

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Haylie Duff

Haylie Katherine Duff (born February 19, 1985) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, television host, writer, and fashion designer.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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I Heart Huckabees

I ♥ Huckabees (known usually as I Heart Huckabees but also as I Love Huckabees) is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz-funk band from London, formed in 1992.

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Jared and Jerusha Hess

Jared Lawrence Hess (born July 18, 1979) and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess (née Demke; born May 12, 1980) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers known for their work on Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009), all of which they co-wrote and which were directed by Jared Hess (Nacho Libre was co-written with Mike White).

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Jeremy Coon

Jeremy Coon (born 1979) is an American executive producer and editor of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, a cult hit made on a $400,000 budget that has earned more than $44 million since its release.

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John Swihart

John Swihart is an American musical composer for film and television.

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Jon Gries

Jonathan Francis "Jon" Gries (born June 17, 1957) is an American actor, writer, and director.

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Jon Heder

Jonathan Joseph Heder (born October 26, 1977) is an American actor, producer and comedian.

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Lemonhead (candy)

Lemonhead is an American brand of candy, first introduced in 1962, produced by the Ferrara Candy Company.

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Liger

The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion (Panthera leo) and a female tiger (Panthera tigris).

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Limited release

Limited release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few theaters across a country, typically in major metropolitan markets.

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Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mike Scully

Michael Scully (born October 2, 1956) is an American television writer and producer.

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Missionary (LDS Church)

Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—widely known as Mormon missionaries—are volunteer representatives of the LDS Church who engage variously in proselytizing, church service, humanitarian aid, and community service.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from other combat sports and martial arts.

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Moon Boot

Moon Boots are footwear first created in the early 1970s by manufacturer Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello, Italy.

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MTV Films

MTV Films is the motion picture production arm of the American cable television channel MTV.

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MTV Movie & TV Awards

The MTV Movie & TV Awards (formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards) is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV.

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Napoleon Dynamite: The Game

Napoleon Dynamite: The Game is a video game based on the film Napoleon Dynamite.

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National FFA Organization

National FFA Organization is an American 501(c)(3) youth organization, specifically a career and technical student organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education.

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Paramount Home Media Distribution

Paramount Home Media Distribution (PHMD) (formerly Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Video and Paramount Video) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures (a subsidiary of Viacom) founded in late 1979.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Peluca

Peluca is a short film by director Jared Hess, produced for an assignment while attending Brigham Young University in 2002.

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Peter Travers

Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone.

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Ponytail

A ponytail is a hairstyle in which some, most or all of the hair on the head is pulled away from the face, gathered and secured at the back of the head with a hair tie, clip, or other similar device and allowed to hang freely from that point.

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Post-credits scene

A post-credits scene (also called a tag, stinger, coda, after-credits sequence or credit cookie) is a short clip that appears after all or some of the closing credits have rolled and sometimes after a production logo of a film, TV series or video game have run.

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Preston, Idaho

Preston is a city in Franklin County, Idaho, United States.

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Regent University

Regent University is a private Christian research university located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware and cars).

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sandy Martin

Sandy Martin (born March 3, 1949) is an American actress who has over 60 film credits and has been an actress, producer, director, and writer in professional theater productions.

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Satellite Awards

The Satellite Awards are annual awards given by the International Press Academy that are commonly noted in entertainment industry journals and blogs.

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Sean Covel

Sean Covel is an American film producer.

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Shondrella Avery

Shondrella Dupre Avery (born April 26, 1971) is an American actress, model and comedian.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Slamdance Film Festival

The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists and low-budget independent films, created in 1995.

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Standing ovation

A standing ovation is a form of applause where members of a seated audience stand up while applauding after extraordinary performances of particularly high acclaim.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment (also judgment as a matter of law) is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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Teen Choice Awards

The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that airs on the Fox television network.

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Tetherball

Tetherball is a game for two opposing players.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rose (song)

"The Rose" is a classic pop song written by Amanda McBroom and made famous by Bette Midler who recorded it for the soundtrack of the 1979 film The Rose in which it plays under the closing credits.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tina Majorino

Tina Marie Majorino (born February 7, 1985) is an American film and television actress.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Videocassette recorder

A videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording.

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Walkman

Walkman is a Sony brand tradename, originally used for portable audio cassette players from the late 1970s onwards.

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16 mm film

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (formerly Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., doing business as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio.

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20th Century Fox Television

Twentieth Century Fox Television (or TCFTV, stylized as 20th Century Fox Television) is the television production division of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group (both are owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Dynamite

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