FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES PRESENTS

JON HEDER as

JON GRIES AARON RUELL

EFREN RAMIREZ TINA MAJORINO

With DIEDRICH BADER Casting by .............................................................JORY WEITZ Music by ................................................................JOHN SWIHART Editor .....................................................................JEREMY COON Production Designer..............................................CORY LORENZEN Director of Photography ........................................MUNN POWELL Executive Producers .............................................JORY WEITZ Produced by ..........................................................JEREMY COON, CHRIS WYATT, SEAN C. COVEL Written by ..............................................................JARED HESS, JERUSHA HESS Directed by ............................................................JARED HESS

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Sweet!! What word could possibly better sum up our experience this year at Preston High? Actually, I never even thought we’d make it through the Student Body Elections, but here we are. And to celebrate what we’ve all learned this year, for this yearbook we’ve decided to follow one of Preston’s least popular students. So meet Napoleon Dynamite, whom you might have seen muttering “Go-osh” and “Idiot” in the halls. You probably recognize his tight red afro, his moon-boots and hammer-pants and his mean game of one-man tether ball. But there’s far more to Napoleon than the laid-back nerd you’ve watched lecture about Loch Ness and get slammed into lockers. Because somehow this oddball managed to turn our school upside down and make the wildest dreams of his friends come true. Is Napoleon the ultimate outcast, or the reluctant hero of a kick-back generation? Either way, there’s definitely something about the guy that captures the comedy, tragedy, disorientation – and yes, sweetness – of trying to make it through life. Or at least high school. Just remember to keep loving summer all year round.

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p.s. A runaway comedy hit at the Sundance Film Festival and named Best Feature Film at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE marks the feature film debut of an original new voice, director Jared Hess, who himself grew up in Preston, Idaho and left his studies at Brigham Young University to make the film. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is written by Jared and his wife, Jerusha Hess, and produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt and Sean C. Covel. The comic cast includes Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Diedrich Bader and Haylie Duff.

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ACTIVITIES

Our high school is filled with fun activities and even Napoleon Dynamite has a few, including: practicing his numchuk and bow staff skills, obsessively sketching ligers (you know - the cross between a lion and a tiger), competing at cow-judging with the Future Farmers of America and performing sign-language sing-alongs with the Happy Hands Club. But just how did Napoleon arrive at this eccentrically endearing lifestyle? It all began with Jared Hess’ short film PELUCA, based on his experiences growing up a quirky outsider in small-town America, specifically in tiny, rural Preston, Idaho. While studying at BYU, Hess, who always hoped to make a feature, made his short in just two days for a mere $500, using mostly locals rather than professional actors. He hired a few of his talented classmates to fill in the remaining cast and crew roles, tapping Jeremy Coon as his producer and Jon Heder (then an animation student, not an actor) as his star. PELUCA became such a hit – eventually drawing acclaim at the influential Slamdance Festival – that Hess felt ready to turn it into the full-length feature comedy he’d always envisioned. With the support of Jeremy Coon and a private investor, Hess set out to write a script that would lovingly reinvent the tired structures of the typical teen comedy. Though Hess says he and his wife’s collaboration was so tight it’s impossible to give credit for any one character solely to himself or Jerusha, in general he focused on the male characters and she on the female characters. Throughout it all though they sparked one another’s memories of friends and acquaintances who happily lived on life’s weirder side, in a nearly alien small-town world of time machines, martial arts mastery, unselfconscious dance numbers, exasperated sighs and encyclopedic knowledge of cows. “The characters of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE are inspired largely from people I grew up with in Idaho and especially from my five younger brothers and friends at school,” explains Hess. “I basically set out to tell the story of the kind of young people who have never really had their stories told – people like that nerdy kid who sat next to you in math drawing mythical animals, the people who you never talked to or really got to know.” “I love these characters,” Hess continues, “and I hope others will love them as much as I do. They are optimistic and oblivious to the world’s response to them, and to me, this film is about how these very unique and eccentric people pursue their dreams, no matter how simple and small.” Many of the most outlandish-seeming scenes in NAPOLEON DYNAMITE are indeed “stranger than fiction” having emerged from reality, including the unexpected

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cow shooting Napoleon witnesses (which happened to Hess’ brother) and the mail-order time machine Uncle Rico orders (remarkably similar to one Aaron Ruell’s brother sent away for while they were growing up.) Says producer Jeremy Coon: “It’s the ring of truth in Jared and Jerusha’s script that really makes it so special. The people in the film and the things that happen might seem ridiculous but there’s something also very feasible about them that makes them that much more comical and weird.” Coon continues: “The characters are people we all know, just slightly exaggerated. They’re archetypes in a sense and I think everyone who sees the film has their own personal favorite. But for me, the key to the comedy is that the film is just plain honest. It’s a reflection on things everyone has gone through, but from a viewpoint you’ve probably never seen before.” While some might wonder if the Hesses are sardonically mocking their own backgrounds, Coon believes the comedy arises entirely from a spirit of deep affection for their characters’ wonderfully weird ways. “I’ve never seen anybody care so much about his characters as Jared,” he observes. “I mean Jared can do a spot-on perfect imitation of every single character in the movie – male or female – and not just their voices, but everything, their movements, the way they breathe, how they ride a bike. It’s uncanny, eerie even, how well he can do them. He knows them like they are a part of him, and that’s something I think comes across in the audience’s reaction to the movie. He really loves these people and their odd but hopeful lives, and I think that’s why people have responded so strongly to it.”

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SPORTS Sure, some students prefer those old stand-bys, football and basketball, but Napoleon Dynamite also participates in a few sports: there’s his karate class at the Rex Kwon-Do Self Defense school, his solo tether-ball “performances” and his excursions on his girl-style 10-speed, not to mention his steak-dodging skills, his brilliance at milk tasting and, of course, his secret dancing magic. To portray Napoleon’s distinctive mix of geeky physicality, dead-pan modern style and hidden, unflappable can-do spirit, Jared Hess turned to the same actor who brought the uber-nerd Seth to life so successfully in PELUCA: promising new comic actor Jon Heder. “Jon looks nothing like Napoleon in real life, but once we put him in a pair of moon boots and gave him a perm the transformation was complete, and the rest is history,” says Hess. Indeed, Jon Heder transformed himself into a boy so profoundly geeky, he believes in his own heart he’s perfectly normal. Heder found that the character’s trademark quirks grew on him more and more as he got to know the young man he affectionately calls “Nappy D.” “When Jared first asked me to play the role my basic response was ‘holy crap, I am so honored,’” he says. “I knew Jared was so talented and we shared the same sense of humor. But Napoleon became this very cool thing, this character who everyone seemed to love and mesh with.” Heder continues: “One thing I’ve observed about Napoleon is that almost everybody says he reminds them of their younger brother. I think he’s sort of the Universal Younger Brother, in that the whole world acts like his older brother and is sort of against him in that teasing way. He’s a little pissed-off about that, but he also has this other amazing quality, this sort of nerdy innocence and optimism in the coolness of the world. I mean he really believes he actually has deadly Ninja skills, he really believes that ligers exist. I think Napoleon lives in a world where we all wish we could still be.” Although Heder grew up in mid-sized Salem, Oregon, he’s spent enough time in small Western towns to understand the kind of infectious dead-pan ennui that kids growing up there often take on as a personal style. “I don’t think Preston is that different from where I went to high school,” Heder comments. “I think any place is going to have its weirdos and its outcasts as well as its Summers, so everyone can relate to NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. But I also think what does happen in a small town is that people live even more in their own little individual worlds. There’s no other outlet. It’s a setting you’ve never really seen in this kind of teen comedy.” To fully inhabit Napoleon’s unusual world, Heder worked closely with Jared Hess, coming up with the inimitable ways the hapless young Idahoan talks, walks and lashes out wildly at a tether ball. “Napoleon had to be a very subtle, dead-pan

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performance – there’s nothing dynamic about him,” notes Heder. “But really, he has spoiled me. I feel it’s quite possible that even if I go on to a successful acting career, I may never find another character as wonderful as Napoleon.” If Napoleon seems befuddled by his future, it’s really no wonder. One need only look as far as his brother Kip, a 32-year-old stay-at-home nerd to see that his role models aren’t exactly of the stellar variety. Nevertheless, Kip may be the one character who makes the biggest life-changing leap in NAPOLEON DYNAMITE: finding love on the internet with the mysterious LaFawnduh and jumping on a Greyhound to leave Preston behind at last. Playing Kip is another BYU classmate of Jared Hess’, Aaron Ruell, whose imitations of his younger brother’s obsession with time machines and other “high-tech” paraphernalia further inspired the creation of the character. “I used to do impressions of my brother for Jared and, though I didn’t realize it at the time, he must have been jotting all this stuff down because Kip is very much based on that,” he explains. “My brother is a lot younger than Kip and not quite as nerdy but he, too, once purchased a time machine that didn’t do anything more than give him shocks.” Ruell describes Kip as “a good guy who lives in a kind of fake technological world.” He elaborates: “I think Kip would like to be able to call himself a computer programmer, but the truth is he only knows how to boot up and shut down his computer. He’s the kind of guy who still refers to the Web as ‘the super information highway.’ And yet, it’s on that highway that he’s looking for someone out there that even he can connect with.” While Ruell found the character of Kip hitting close to home, others on the set were taken aback by his radical transformation. “To me, Aaron is so different from Kip that I was a little worried,” says Jon Heder. “I knew Aaron as this very cool, very stylish, arty and serious guy -- but then the first day on the set, oh my gosh, he just became the character. He pulled it off completely.” For Ruell, a big part of the thrill of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE was watching all the characters come alive on the set – and realizing just how recognizable and true-to-life their outrageous-seeming oddities became. “I liked the screenplay but it was only once we started shooting that I realized just how funny the film was going to be,” he says. “These characters are so easy to connect to – if you don’t relate to Napoleon, you’re bound to see a little of yourself in some of the traits that Kip, Rico, Deb or Pedro have. Sure, very few people are going to fully identify with these characters because they’re just too out-there for that, but there’s a little quirkiness in all of us and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE celebrates that.” Kip might be in his thirties but when the Dynamite boys’ grandmother cracks her coccyx riding her ATV over the local sand dunes, a caretaker still shows up in the person of Uncle Rico, a van-driving, muscle-flexing, steak-scarfing, Adonis-in-his-own-mind who remains permanently lodged in the glory days of 1982.

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Rico’s ever-failed ambitions (including his latest line of work selling breast enhancing pills) and thwarted athleticism make him the perfect dynamic foil for the so-laid-back-they’re-nearly-inanimate Kip and Napoleon. Playing Uncle Rico is one of the film’s few veteran performers, Jon Gries, who has recently been seen in such indie films as NORTHFORK and THE BIG EMPTY. Gries was ready to sign up as Uncle Rico by the time he got to page 15 of the script. “My first impression was that Jared is a ridiculously funny guy and I knew right away I wanted to make the film,” he says. “There was an intuitive sense of how life really works in his script and I knew that if he could make it come off on the screen, it would be brilliant. I also thought that no matter what, it would be a great adventure because when I met with Jared and the filmmakers, everyone’s basic attitude seemed to be ‘let’s take chances and have a good time.’” Gries had his work cut out for him though. “Jared gave me a pretty good sketch of Rico in the beginning, even down to the way he thought the guy might run and smell himself, but then he turned me loose and let me make the character mine. It truly became a collaborative creation, inspired both by Jared’s suggestions and stuff from my own experience.” Gries continues: “Ultimately, I see Uncle Rico as a guy who wants to be a cross between David Hasselhoff and Burt Reynolds. We all know a guy like him, a guy so insecure that he’s outrageously vain, a guy who might spend hours watching his own biceps flex, and the kind of guy who never sees anything in the world as being his fault. Whatever Rico’s life is like, it’s because of decisions other people made.” Still distraught over being left on the bench when his football team could have “won State,” Uncle Rico compulsively tosses footballs in front of a camera, waiting for that elusive perfect toss. Likewise, Gries devoted himself to tossing a ball until he had perfectly refined Uncle Rico’s precise throwing style. “I wanted him to have a goofy style, but a pretty good arm at the same time,” he says. “I didn’t want him to be a total goober.” An experienced baseball player, Gries had the skills to fine-tune Rico’s technique. But his arm also came in handy for the scene in which Rico hauls off a steak at Napoleon’s head. “I went into that scene trying very hard to hit Jon Heder as gently as possible,” Gries says in his defense. “I must have tried to hit him dozens of times but it never even connected. Finally I said to Jared, please just give me one more chance, and this time I really let loose and hit Jon square in the face with this big hunk of meat – so hard he had a visible bruise. But he was a good sport about it, and the scene became a favorite.” Gries also spent some time contemplating Uncle Rico’s relationship with Napoleon. “I think deep down inside Uncle Rico resents Napoleon because in spite of the fact that he’s a geek and an outsider, he still manages to march to his own tune, which is

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something Rico hasn’t yet been able to figure out,” he says. “I think this film is about people finding themselves – not in big, monumental ways but in little, subtle moments. When Napoleon does his dance for Pedro, it’s something kind of silly but it also makes him stronger, and each of the characters has a moment like that. There’s even hope in the end for poor Rico.” Another character who finds his life changing is Pedro, Napoleon’s one and only true friend who becomes his buddy almost by default when Napoleon spots Pedro’s day-glo Huffy Sledgehammer mountain-bike and senses a kindred spirit. A soft-spoken recent Mexican immigrant with a knack for baking cakes for the ladies, Pedro is every bit Napoleon’s match in the nerd department. But when he decides to run for Student Body President, the results are completely unexpected. Pedro was inspired by a composite of friends Jared Hess remembered from high school. “There’s something a little twilight zone about Pedro, and he doesn’t say much,” notes Hess, “but he’s very confident in his love life.” Portraying Pedro is newcomer Efren Ramirez, who is also a musician active in Los Angeles’ club scene. Exuberant and talkative, Ramirez is the very opposite of Pedro, yet found the taciturn soul of his unusual character. “What I remember most from my auditions is that Jared Hess kept telling me to calm down. I thought I was pretty calm but then he said something that really helped me to see Pedro better. He said: ‘Be still. Do absolutely nothing.’ And for me, that was the key. I did nothing and got the part.” Ramirez was simultaneously offered a role in the big-budget epic THE ALAMO, but chose NAPOLEON DYNAMITE despite the risk. “I thought the script was so funny and I really wanted to see how audiences would react to this character,” he explains. “Actually, I was interested in all of the characters. Jared and Jerusha did such a good job of creating these people who seem very simple but who actually each change in some very real way. To me, the movie’s not just about a bunch of funny nerds but about people struggling to find friendship and trust and to figure out ways to get through this crazy life.” Ramirez also found himself bouncing off of Jon Heder’s stylishly static performance. “A lot of what I did was just reacting to Jon -- he was so good at being very subdued, I just worked to be even more subdued than he was,” Ramirez explains. Says Heder of Ramirez’s work: “He went really out there with the character, which was a lot of inspiration for the rest of us.” The final touches on Pedro came when Efren Ramirez encountered Preston, Idaho for the first time. “I had never been to any place like it,” he says. “When I got there, I finally understood the term ‘My Own Private Idaho.’ It was very revealing because the people there were all just so nice and so real. That gave me a better idea of what the whole script is about.”

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“Once we were there, for me it became all about the scene where Pedro finds the confidence to get up and make his speech at the elections. Because that’s really when Pedro acknowledges and reveals what Napoleon’s friendship has done for him. It’s a great moment because you really feel the humanity in these two characters and their friendship, which suddenly has a power to it,” sums up Ramirez. Napoleon’s only female friend is Deb, who sells her home-made crafts – including boondoggle key chains, “a must have for this season’s fashion” – door to door. Deb, who completes the oddball triangle of Napoleon and Pedro, is also an amateur photographer who practices her “glamour shots” on the ever-willing Uncle Rico. To play the role, the filmmakers chose Tina Majorino, a former child star whose roles include WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, CORRINA, CORRINA and WATERWORLD. For Majorino, the big draw to this tiny indie was the script’s huge amount of spirit. “I laughed out loud the entire time I was reading,” she admits. “No script has ever really done that to me before. I thought the characters were so developed and real and funny in their own quirky ways – and I thought it was a really new perspective. I think it’s a great chance for people to meet some of those kids who might have been incredibly unpopular or who never knew the right thing to say, or had very freaky fashion sense, but who were really great in their own way. I was also so happy to see a story in which the nerdy guy triumphs and gets the girl.” Majorino also got a kick out the film’s ode to 80s style: “I think we all love seeing those things most of us left behind in the 80s: the hammer pants, the moon boots, the side pony-tails and of course the boondoggle key chains!” As for Deb, Majorino found herself enchanted. “I really love Deb because she knows she’s different from other kids but she completely embraces it. She sees the sweetness in everyone, especially Napoleon, who all the other kids just make fun of. She bases her decisions about people on their insides.” Despite growing up in Hollywood, Majorino could also relate to Deb’s innate awkwardness. “Most people wouldn’t guess it, but I’m a pretty shy girl,” she says. “So from the get-go, I had that in common with Deb. But I really wanted her to become a full character, so I looked for lots of nuances to create who she is. I modeled her body movement after some insecure, skittish kids I see around town all the time – and I tried to do that little, shy, nerdy kid inside me justice.” As for her reaction to Napoleon, Majorino could see why Deb might develop a secret crush on such an iconoclast. “No one could ever say exactly why Deb falls for Napoleon, but I think it has to do with how sweet and genuine he is,” she comments. “I think we have Napoleons everywhere around the country, and people rarely pay attention to them, but we should.”

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Aside from Jared Hess’ BYU classmates Jon Heder and Aaron Ruell, the entire cast was put together in just a few days with the help of casting agent and executive producer Jory Weitz. “Jory came on board because he loved the script and then we gave him just two weeks to cast the whole film. But he did an amazing job. We couldn’t have done it without him,” says Hess. Sums up Jeremy Coon: “The big miracle of this movie was the casting. For any of the roles, it’s now impossible to imagine any other actor doing as great a job. There wasn’t a single person involved who wasn’t a total pleasure to work with.”

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OUR COMMUNITY Preston’s Population: 4, 682 Preston’s Elevation: 4716 Feet Town Motto (from Preston Chamber of Commerce): Vision, Spirit, Action! We like to think of Preston High as the future of Preston, Idaho and the entire Gem state -- and students here take a real interest in our local community. Napoleon Dynamite isn’t really all that different in that regard. From feeding his grandmother’s llama to scouting out onion-eating cows to spontaneously helping his good friend Pedro in the Student Body Elections, Napoleon has had his own unique and unexpected effects on our little town. To capture Napoleon’s environment – a mix of quaint Americana and modern technology, of stark high-desert wilderness and florid teenage fantasy – the entire cast and crew journeyed to Preston, Idaho, the small farming community where Jared Hess grew up. For those from big cities, the wide open spaces and lack of urban conveniences made for a bit of culture shock. The town, however, accepted the production with outstretched arms. “We stuck out like a sore thumb but the support was incredible,” says Jared Hess. “The mayor was willing to do anything for us, and people welcomed us into their homes. It wouldn’t have been possible to make the movie without that. Adds Jeremy Coon: “Because Preston’s only hotel is so small that it couldn’t house our entire cast and crew, many of us wound up staying in local basements and spare bedrooms. The people of Preston were just so good to us, and there was so much love there, that it turned into a real summer camp atmosphere.” It was in Preston that cinematographer Munn Powell drew inspiration for the film’s distinctive look, which reflects both the spacious local landscape – with its infinite-sky horizons and dead-flat geography -- and the characters’ “lost in space” attitudes. Echoing the rhythms of Napoleon himself in the camerawork, Powell used wide lenses and long, static shots, punctuated every now and then with quick, hyperactive zooms. “Munn and I wanted to use the photography in the film to accommodate the comedy,” says Jared Hess. “We talked about using a lot of static shots because when the camera is still, you pay more attention to the little details, to the movements of the characters in the frame, which is where a lot of the action takes place.” “Jared and I talked at great length about the film’s look,” adds Powell. “We knew there was a danger of undercutting the character’s motion with too much camera

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movement, so we made a conscious effort to get out of the way and let the story do its thing. We just set the camera up a lot of the time and used very careful blocking and composition as opposed to using a lot of cuts.” He continues: “Then we decided to do a few zooms to echo some of Napoleon’s frenetic energy and we almost started having too much fun with that. But it works because I think the whole film feels like it’s parked in this weird, static town and then every once in awhile things just break loose and go crazy.” Powell was also fascinated by the town’s land-out-of-time aesthetic. “I wanted to get on screen that feeling of a small town as almost being an alternate universe,” he explains. “In Preston, you walk around and see that three or four decades are simultaneously omnipresent. It’s a weird mix of different styles and eras that all come together.” Also intrigued by this aspect of Preston was production designer Cory Lorenzen who collaborated closely with Munn Powell and Jared Hess on the film’s offbeat visual style by taking this nostalgic design sensibility to an extreme degree. “We chose an aesthetic for Napoleon’s world that you might call retro-ugly,” laughs Lorenzen. “I mean most things become retro because they’ve stood the test of time, but this movie is full of the stuff that really shouldn’t have stood the test of time because it was just so bad. We had this sense of people who lived in a world where all the styles that got left behind were just piled up on top of one another.” Lorenzen went on comedy-filled shopping sprees at thrift stores in both Preston and Salt Lake City to acquire the many anachronistic objects that line the Dynamite house. Other key items in the film had to be custom-made, including: the piñata that lands Pedro in trouble, which was handmade by a local Mexican craftsman; the mail-order Time Machine which Lorenzen built to Jared’s description of being “totally cheesy and sketchy”; and, Lorenzen’s favorite item, Pedro’s Huffy Sledgehammer bike replete with Day-Glo handlebars. To create the Dynamite abode, Lorenzen looked at every house in Preston, which he jokes “didn’t take long.” Eventually, he found a place for sale that the production could move into for a couple weeks. “The only problem was that the house was way too cool,” he recalls. “It had this great, mid-60s modern design that we had to uglify. So we put a dead cougar on the wall and added lots of gaudy, gold decorations.” The production designer also searched Preston to find an appropriately non-conventional home for the supremely iconoclastic Pedro. “In this great little community of modest bungalows and ranch houses we came across one eclectic, Spanish-style house and I knew that was it,” says Lorenzen. “It became my favorite design, because we were able to do something really different where Pedro’s Mexican culture meets up with the small-town style of Preston.”

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Eventually, the whole cast and crew began to fall in love with Preston’s laid-back attitude. “What’s funny is that I didn’t even want to shoot there in the beginning,” says Jeremy Coon. “I thought it would be too small and remote but the people in the town and the atmosphere completely changed my mind. Now I realize we couldn’t have made this movie anywhere else.” With little in the way of night-life, cast and crew were thrown into more intimate interaction, getting to know each other the way neighbors do in small towns. “Every night we’d all just hang out playing basketball and video games,” recalls Coon. “It was truly like going off to summer camp and we were all so close in age it was easy to become good friends. Ironically, Jared and I – the director and the producer -- were the two youngest people on the set.” Of course, Preston did have its challenges, several of them bovine-related. When Jared Hess wrote into his script a five-nippled cow, he was under the impression that they were fairly common. As it turns out, it wasn’t so easy to find one in Preston. “We just could not find a five-nippled cow,” he remembers, “and the day of the scene, we were really starting to sweat it. But next door to where we were shooting Napoleon’s house there was a big farm and the farmer said to me ‘I reckon I could find one hef’ and he disappeared for what seemed like most of the day. Finally he came back and said: ‘I found one, but I had to knock quite a few of them over.’ We had to wait but we got our extra nipple.” Another time, the cast and crew had to wait for several hours on a special “show cow” that was stuck in traffic. The heat in Preston also became legendary. “We had four days of 100-plus temps in a row,” says Jeremy Coon. “It was so bad, the first day Haylie Duff was on the set, she fainted. We had to shoot the school dance during this heat wave and people were just sweating like crazy in their dresses and tuxes. We were just loading them up on Gatorade and hoping no one else would lose consciousness!” The only time the production left Preston was to shoot at the sand dunes about two hours north, another unexpected blast for Jeremy Coon. “One of the great things about this movie is that it introduced me to all these different little subcultures I never knew about,” he says. “I didn’t know about sand dunes, I didn’t know about Future Farmers of America. It was a great introduction to another side of America.” Sums up Tina Majorino: “Preston really is a kind of time capsule. On the one hand, everyone still dresses like the 70s and 80s but on the other hand, everyone has the internet. It must be an interesting place to grow up. But the one thing you can’t help but notice is that everyone there is so genuine and kind. There’s a definite feeling of community there – even if you’re an outcast!”

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THE BIG DANCE We had lots of super dances this year, but the year’s most memorable “dance” may very well be the one Napoleon Dynamite somehow pulled off at the Student Body Elections as his “skit” for Pedro’s candidacy. Sometimes it’s the little, weird, spontaneous things you do that make a difference. Throughout the production of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, Jon Heder had an ongoing anxiety: figuring out how to create the ultimate geeky-yet-wondrous dance sequence for the film’s climactic scene in which Napoleon literally hoofs for his friend Pedro and wins over the crowd. He hoped to put on screen that sort of deep-into-your-own-thing, unselfconscious, spontaneously creative dancing that kids do in their bedroom with the door closed and the lights out – and to spill all of Napoleon’s held-back energy at last onto the screen. Heder knew the scene was going to be one of the last of the month-long production, so he had a lot of time to prepare . . . and worry. “I would say a lot of sweating was my main preparation,” he says, only half jokingly. “At first, I thought I would try to choreograph it, and I even went to the local gym with Tina Majorino -- who teaches hip-hop dancing in real life -- to try and get some moves from her. But it never really felt right. I ended up deciding to just choreograph the first few seconds, then freestyle it the rest of the way.” When the big day came, Jared Hess and Jeremy Coon cleared the set to give Heder at least a semblance of being alone. Even Efren Ramirez, who plays Pedro, was barred from watching (and didn’t actually see the dance performed for his character until Sundance.) “I was still freaked,” says Heder. “Even with so few people in the room, I was sweating bullets yet somehow I managed to do it. I think it’s such an important moment for Napoleon because even though he wants to have all these fantastical skills, he really doesn’t have very many at all. And, in the end, it wasn’t his Ninja fantasy stuff, but just his own little dance that saved the day.” Adds Coon, who pulled creative double-duty as the film’s editor: “We were all getting ulcers over the scene because no one knew if it would work, and it had to work. We only did three takes because everyone knew it had to be a very spontaneous thing. Later, when cutting the film, I did my best to put it together in the coolest possible fashion. But it wasn’t until we went to Sundance that we knew it was all right, when I finally was able to hear Jared say ‘Dude, we got it.’”

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Cast of Characters

Napoleon Dynamite (JON HEDER) Voted Most Likely To: Find Sasquatch Motto: “Gosh, whaddaya think, freakin’ idiot? Sweet!” Spent Summer Vacation: Hunting Wolverines in Alaska Jon Heder is a 26-year-old Brigham Young University student who is majoring in 3-D Animation along with his identical twin brother Daniel. Both began their school career in the Film Studies program. Jon was raised in Salem, Oregon in a family of 6 children. He currently lives in Springville, Utah, with his wife Kirsten. He has acted in several student productions and was the lead in the award-winning short film PELUCA, which was written and directed by NAPOLEON DYNAMITE helmer Jared Hess. Uncle Rico (JON GRIES) Voted Most Likely To: Still live in a van 25 years from now Motto: “If coach had put me in fourth quarter we’d have been state champions.” Spent Summer Vacation: Selling breast enhancers

JON GRIES has appeared in more than 30 feature films. His recent starring credits include the Independent Spirit Award-winning JACKPOT; THE BIG EMPTY, which premiered at the AFI Film Festival with Gries starring opposite Jon Favreau and Daryl Hannah; NORTHFORK; THE SNOW WALKER, which was nominated for 11 Canadian Academy Awards including Best Picture of the year; and last summer’s hit THE RUNDOWN, in which he appears opposite The Rock and Christopher Walken.

Other memorable credits include GET SHORTY, RUNNING SCARED and REAL GENIUS. His next project is the independent feature SLEDGE. Kip Dynamite (AARON RUELL) Voted Most Likely To: Appear in an on-line dating advertisement Motto: “I’m sure there’s a babe out there for you too somewhere.” Spent Summer Vacation: In a chat room Aaron Ruell was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He discovered still photography and filmmaking in high school, which led him to Brigham Young University’s film school. Ruell is primarily a writer and director and his work includes several short films as well as a series of national television commercials. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE marks Aaron’s acting debut.

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Pedro (EFREN RAMIREZ) Voted Most Likely To: Run For Governor of Idaho Motto: “Like, what are my skills?” Spent Summer Vacation: Building cakes Effren Ramirez graduated from a conservatory program at The Laura Henry Studio in Santa Monica, and studied and performed improv at The Young Actors Space. He has appeared on television in “The District,” “ER,” “Judging Amy,” “Relativity,” “Dangerous Minds,” and “Nothing Sacred.” He currently has recurring roles on ”Even Steven,” Fox’s ” Boston Public,” and the animated series “Pepe the Bull.” His film credits include DELIVERING MILO with Albert Finney, THE RACE with Cliff Robertson, and MISSING PIECES opposite the late James Coburn. He recently shot the pilots “The Commissary” and “I Hate You.” His next film is NIGHT CREW with Bruce Camble, and Jack Black. Deb (TINA MAJORINO) Voted Most Likely To: Work for Isaac Mizrahi Motto: “I could wrap you in foam or something billowy.” Spent Summer Vacation: Making boondoggle key chains and glamour shots by Deb Tina Majorino starred in three feature films at the tender age of 8. She began her career appearing in national television commercials, before playing Sophie in the ABC television series “Camp Wilder.” In 1994, Majorino made her feature film debut starring opposite Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia in WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN. Following that, she appeared in CORRINA, CORRINA, ANDRE and WATERWORLD. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is her first film in several years, after taking time off to be a normal high school student. Rex Kwon Do (DIEDRICH BADER) Voted Most Likely To: Deliver a roundhouse kick to the face Motto: “Do you think anyone thinks I’m a failure cuz I got Starla to go home to at night? Spent Summer Vacation: Bowing to his sensei AWAITING BIO Summer (HAYLIE DUFF) Voted Most Likely To: Become Miss Idaho Motto: “With me, it will be summer all year round” Spent Summer Vacation: Being popular

Haylie Duff, 18, is from Houston, Texas, where she first appeared on film in the two-part mini-series "True Women" and in Goldie Hawn's directorial debut, HOPE. Haylie and her sister Hilary, 16, were soon in California pursuing acting full time. She quickly landed roles in films including ADDAMS FAMILY REUNION, THE NEWMAN SHOWER, DREAMS

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IN THE ATTIC and I LOVE YOUR WORK, as well as guest-starring roles in the television series "Third Watch," "Boston Public," "The Amanda Show," and "Chicago Hope." This year, Duff has appeared in THIS GIRL’S LIFE, I LOVE YOUR WORK and THAT’S SO RAVEN.

Duff is also a talented singer/songwriter. For two years she was a member of the girl group "Trilogy" and is now pursuing a solo career. She wrote two songs on Hilary's hit debut album “Metamorphosis," and is currently writing and recording the theme song for a series of Christian DVDs called "Surf City Summer," in which she will also voice the animated lead character. After wrapping "Surf City Summer," she will begin recording her solo album.

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THE FILMMAKERS

JARED HESS (Director and Writer) Jared Hess, 24 is from Preston, Idaho. Throughout high school and college, Hess

worked as a camera assistant on feature films in Utah and California. He studied film at

Brigham Young University where he met wife Jerusha and also made the award-winning

short film PELUCA. PELUCA was chosen as one of 12 short films to compete in the shorts

program at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is Hess’ first

feature film. He is currently developing his next comedy feature.

JERUSHA HESS (Writer/Costume Designer) Jerusha Hess, 23, is a graduate of Brigham Young University, where she studied

English and film. She co-wrote NAPOLEON DYNAMITE with husband Jared. Jerusha and

Jared currently live in Salt Lake City with their son Elliot.

JEREMY COON (Producer, Editor)

Jeremy Coon, 24, is a native Texan who graduated in film and business from

Brigham Young University in 2002. He met director Jared Hess while attending film school

at Brigham Young University. The two became friends, which lead to frequent

collaborations – most notably the short PELUCA, which Coon also produced and edited.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is Coon’s feature-length producing and editing debut. He is

currently collaborating with Hess on developing their next comedy feature.

CHRIS “DOC” WYATT (Producer) Chris "Doc" Wyatt received his Bachelors in film from BYU (Dec, 1999) and his

Masters of Motion Picture Producing from the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC (May,

2002). Before serving as a producer on NAPOLEON, Wyatt produced and directed a series

of national spots for Di Massimo Brand Advertising in New York. Wyatt recently co-founded

First Frame Pictures, a slate of five independently financed feature films devoted to

launching first time directors. First Frame's debut film, THINK TANK, is currently in post-

production.

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SEAN C. COVEL (Producer) Sean C. Covel grew up in the ranching community of Edgemont, South Dakota, and

received an undergraduate degree from the University of Nebraska. Covel transitioned to

the entertainment industry by earning his Masters from the Peter Stark Producing Program

at USC where he produced several short films and spent his final year of study working at

the Creative Artists Agency. Since graduation from USC, Covel has produced two feature-

length documentaries on the motorcycle subculture and three national television spots

before serving as a producer on NAPOLEON DYNAMITE. He and friend, Chris Wyatt, are

currently in post on the second in a series of feature films dedicated to launching talented

young filmmakers.

JORY WEITZ (Executive Producer, Casting Director)

Jory Weitz began his career in the New York theatre world casting Broadway

and off-Broadway shows. He then transitioned into casting feature films working

with an elite corps of directors such as Tim Burton, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron

Shelton, Kevin Costner and Stephen Frears. Most recently, he cast the indie film

THE BIG EMPTY, starring Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Daryl Hannah,

which premiered at the 2003 AFI Film Festival. His upcoming projects are producing

THE OTHER SIDE with Antonio Banderas and Diane Sillan Isaacs, starring Thora

Birch, Jack Osbourne and Melanie Griffith, and the Scott Alexander and Larry

Karaszewski (Ed Wood; People vs. Larry Flynt; Man on the Moon) film RAINBOW

MAN.

MUNN POWELL (Director of Photography)

Munn Powell has been shooting commercials, documentaries and dramatic shorts for

eight years. A resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, Powell’s cinematography has encompassed

work on narrative and documentary subjects in Europe, the Pacific and South America.

Munn and Jared Hess first collaborated while students at Brigham Young University.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is his first feature length film.

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CORY LORENZEN (Production Designer) NAPOLEON DYNAMITE marks Cory Lorenzen’s feature film debut as a production

designer. His experience in film design has run the gamut from from FX model maker to

draftsman, set decorator, and art director. His diverse background also includes award-

winning theatrical designs and work for some of the world's largest theme parks. A Los

Angeles native, Lorenzen graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in

Theater and Film Design and Technology JOHN SWIHART (Music By)

John Swihart’s career writing and producing music for feature films, television,

corporate videos, games and interactive projects has spanned more than 12 years.

Amongst the features he has worked on are: BEDFORD SPRINGS, PURGATORY

HOUSE, LEAST LIKELY CANDIDATE and GENTLE HANDS. He is currently

composing CMT’s “The Drive” and a feature that is tentatively titled MALL COP.

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[full frame] Unit Production Manager ..................................................................................... JENNIE YAMAKI Line Producer....................................................................................................... FREDERICK WEDLER 1st AD .................................................................................................................. TIM SKOUSEN 2nd AD ................................................................................................................. BRIAN PETERSEN

CAST Napoleon Dynamite ............................................................................................. JON HEDER Uncle Rico............................................................................................................ JON GRIES Kip ....................................................................................................................... AARON RUELL Pedro .................................................................................................................. EFREN RAMIREZ Rex....................................................................................................................... DIEDRICH BADER Deb ...................................................................................................................... TINA MAJORINO Grandma .............................................................................................................. SANDY MARTIN Summer ............................................................................................................... HAYLIE DUFF Don ...................................................................................................................... TREVOR SNARR LaFawnduh .......................................................................................................... SHONDRELLA AVERY Randy................................................................................................................... BRACKEN JOHNSON Starla.................................................................................................................... CARMEN BRADY Ilene ..................................................................................................................... ELLEN DUBIN Jock #1................................................................................................................. J.C. CUNNINGHAM Jock #2................................................................................................................. JAMES SMOOTH Lance ................................................................................................................... BRIAN PETERSEN Nathan ................................................................................................................. BRETT TAYLOR Principal Svadean ................................................................................................ TOM LEFLER Renae .................................................................................................................. ELIZABETH ............................................................................................................................. MIKLAVCIC Sheldon................................................................................................................ SCOTT THOMAS Shoney................................................................................................................. LORIA BADELLI Trisha ................................................................................................................... EMILY KENNARD Vern ..................................................................................................................... JAMEN GUNNELL Corrina ................................................................................................................. NANETTE YOUNG Cashier................................................................................................................. WALTER PLATZ Cholo #1............................................................................................................... NANO DE SILVA Cholo #2............................................................................................................... ARTURO DE SILVA Farmer ................................................................................................................ PAT DONAHUE Lyle ...................................................................................................................... DALE CRITCHLOW FFA Judge #1 ...................................................................................................... TOM ADAMS FFA Judge #2 ...................................................................................................... ELDEAN HOLLIDAY FFA Judge #3 ...................................................................................................... ARLANDO LARSEN Teacher................................................................................................................ MARY HEERS Farm Boy #1 ........................................................................................................ T.J. ADAMS Farm Boy #2 ....................................................................................................... JAKE VISSER Farm Boy #3 ....................................................................................................... BRADY STOKES Secretary #1 ........................................................................................................ THEDORA PEETERBORG Secretary #2 ........................................................................................................ BECKY DEMKE Girl on Bike ......................................................................................................... JULIA RUELL

School Kids CODY ABRAMS JAKE ADAMS PAUL ADAMS CARA ALDER SHONEE ALDER SHONTAE ALDER FREDRICK ATKINS DERIK ATKINSON TAMI AUGER AMANDA AUSTIN SARAH BARTON BROOKE BECKSTEAD MADISON BECKSTEAD LANDON BELL HEATHER BENSON CINDY BIGGS JON BLISS KOLTON BOSEN TAYLOR BOSEN HAYLEY BOWEN DANIEL BREWER MICHAEL BREWER ASHELY BUCK JEREMY BURNS

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CHERONE CALL SHANDA CALL SHAWNEE CALL SHELBEE CALL SKYLAR CARVER CHRISTY CHECKETTS CHRISTINA CHILD PAIGE CHRISTENSEN AMY CHRISTIANSEN JADE CHRISTIANSEN JANE CHRISTIANSEN SHANE CHRISTIANSEN SAMANTHA CLARK SUMMER COBURN BRITTNEY COLE TIFFANY COLE TIMOTHY COLVIN O™ LEAH CORCORRAN ARIANNA CROSLAND MANDI DALLEY SAMI DALLEY BRIAN DAVIS AARON DEMKE KIM DEMKE ISAAC DEMKE TYLER DODGE ALISON DOWNS MARY DOWNS TYLER DRURY MEGAN EARLEY LEATRICE ESPLIN ROY ESPLIN CHARLES FETZER WILLIAM FETZER KAI FETZER BRITTANY FOSTER CASSIE GALLOWAY ALLISON GAMBLE EMILY GAMER HANNAH GIBBY KATHERINE GIBBY KRISTEN GIBBY DAKOTAH GORDON JENNA GRIFFETH BRADEN HABLIN EDEN HAMBLIN KYLE HANSEN TYLER HANSEN EVAN HARRIS RADINE HARRIS ALYSSA HARRISON MEGAN HASLAM JAKE HIGLEY MATT HINRICHS AUDREY HINRICKS COLTON HIRSCHI KAYLA HIRSCHI CHERYL HOBBS CODY HOBBS SEAN HOBIE ELAINA HORNE DEBBIE HUGIE DAMON HULL ASHLEY JACKSON ANNETTE JENSEN KEVIN JENSEN MARLA JENSEN RYAN JENSEN LACEY JOHNSON KARENINA JONES KAYLEEN JONES DAYNE KELLER KATIE KELLER KERI KELLEY MICHAEL KELLEY JAKE KING JESSICA KOLLER AMBER LARSEN KYLIE LARSEN JACOB LINDERMAN JASON LINDERMAN RIONNNIE LOVE MARIO MAININI TYLER MARTIN JUSTIN MASON CHRISTINA MCBRIDE NATE MCBRIDE TREVOR MENDENHALL LEVI MORRISON NANETTER NEILSON MARIE NELSON CHRISTINA NICHOLAS KIMBERLEY NICHOLAS ELISABETH NORTH JESSICA NORTH JOSH NORTH LAURA OLIVDERSON SHAWN OLIVERSON JACLYN OLSEN BRANDON OSTLER SKYLAR OSTLER CONNIE OWEN SARAH OWEN JENNA PACKER SHANTELL PARSONS MCKELL PETERSON LYNETTE PHILLIPS SARA PHILLIPS JUSTIN POPPLETON MATT PORTER MARLENE PROUSE SHANE PULSIPHER STEPHEN RALLISON PARKER RAWLINGS BRIANNE RICHARDSON SEAN RICHMOND KELSEY ROACH TARA ROACH MARC ROBERTS RANDI ROBERTS PERRIE SAGERS LACEY SAXTON LINDSEY SAXTON JENNY SEAMONS KATIE SEAMONS DAVID SHARP PRESTON SLAUGHTER SABRENA SMART LACEY SMITH CHARLES SPARROW KELSEY STOCKDALE TELECIA STOCKDALE JESSE STOCKS KATRINA STOCKS BRADY STOKES VANESSA STRATTON CHANTEL TALBOT CIERRA TALBOT GLORIA TALBOT KOLBY TALBOT RACHEL TALBOT ROSIE THOMAS KACIE THOMPSON JAKE VISSER ALISHA WAKLEY CORY WATERS ELI WHEELER BRIGHAM WILCOX LINDSAY WILSON LAUREN WOMACK CRYSTAL WRIGHT BECKI YEATES PAULA YEATES PATRICK ZOOK AMANDA AUSTIN ADAM HIGLEY TYLER WATERS ATV Driver ........................................................................................................... KEN MURDOCH ATV Stunt ............................................................................................................ MARK MURDOCK Script Supervisor.................................................................................................. BRIAN LEFLER

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Art Director........................................................................................................... CURT JENSON Prop Master ......................................................................................................... JENNI NELSON Art Assistant ........................................................................................................ JONAS SAPPINGTON Lowrider provided by............................................................................................ PATRICK EVJE Costume Designer ............................................................................................... JERUSHA HESS Wardrobe Supervisor ........................................................................................... JULIA RUELL Costumers............................................................................................................ DIANA DEMKE ............................................................................................................................. LULU FETZER Storyboard Artist ................................................................................................. BRIAN LEFLER Key Make-up........................................................................................................ STEVE COSTANZA Assistant Make-up .............................................................................................. IRINA KURINISKAJA Key Hair Stylist .................................................................................................... DANIEL DEMKE Assistant Hair ....................................................................................................... SHEA ROUNDS Assistant Hair ...................................................................................................... JESSICA ROUNDS 1st AC ................................................................................................................. BRANDON CHRISTENSEN 2st AC ................................................................................................................. DOUG CHAMBERLAIN Camera Intern ..................................................................................................... JEFF GUSTAFSON Mounting/Rigging Grip ........................................................................................ TYLER MEINERS Unit Publicity ........................................................................................................ ERIC MORO EPK Videographer .............................................................................................. DANIEL DRYSDALE Still Photographers .............................................................................................. SETH SMOOT ............................................................................................................................. AARON RUELL Sound Mixer ........................................................................................................ MATT DAVIS Boom Operator ................................................................................................... RUSTY FISHER Gaffer .................................................................................................................. DUFF RICH Best Boy .............................................................................................................. TRAVIS CLINE Key Grip .............................................................................................................. WILLIAM BOAZ Swing .................................................................................................................. BRETT SHUMWAY ............................................................................................................................. LEE STRATFORD Additional Editing ................................................................................................ JULIA RUELL Post Sound Supervisor ....................................................................................... HARRY SNODGRASS Re-recording Mixers ............................................................................................ MARK LINDEN ............................................................................................................................. TARA PAUL ADR Editorial ...................................................................................................... CARLOS RAMIREZ Dialogue Editorial ................................................................................................ DAVID SCHARF ............................................................................................................................. TARA PAUL Foley ................................................................................................................... JOAN ROWE Sound F/X Editorial ............................................................................................. HARRY SNODGRASS Post-Production Audio ........................................................................................ STAGE TWO AUDIO, INC. Digital Post Services ............................................................................................ DIGITAL FILM TREE Digital Film Tree Crew ........................................................................................ EDVIN MEHRABYAN ............................................................................................................................. RAMY KATRIB ............................................................................................................................. ZED SAEED ............................................................................................................................. HENRY SANTOS Catering by .......................................................................................................... MAIN STREET GRILL ............................................................................................................................. ELAYNE BAIR, CHARLIE BARNETT ............................................................................................................................. MIS AMORES, GORDON BRUSTER Craft Service ....................................................................................................... LINDA HANSEN Cleaning............................................................................................................... TERESA ANDERSON Communications Services .................................................................................. HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS 2nd 2nd Assistant Director .................................................................................. JAMES HESS

Production Assistants BRANDI ALLRED JESSICA BATH KENDAL CHRISTENSEN NATHAN FIRTH BENJY HESS JASON KARLATIRAS TERRANCE MCKAY QUINTEN WHITE

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Transportation by ................................................................................................. COSTILL PRODUCTION SERVICES CastingŠSalt Lake City ........................................................................................ BROADWAY TALENT/ ............................................................................................................................. FEATURE CASTING, ............................................................................................................................. MARTY FRESCA Casting AssociateŠSalt Lake City........................................................................ SHILOAH POLLOCK Telecine and Dailes by ........................................................................................ MAGIC FILM AND VIDEO WORKS Opening Credit Sequence ................................................................................... FRIEND OR FOE Hand Model ......................................................................................................... BRIAN DAVID COHEN Titles and Opticals by .......................................................................................... TITLE HOUSE DIGITAL Title Design by .................................................................................................... PABLO FERRO VFX Producer, Main Title Sequence ................................................................... JOSH COMEN Digital Compositing Supervisor ........................................................................... ANDREW MIDGLEY Digital Artist ......................................................................................................... ADAM STERN Negative Cutter ................................................................................................... BRIAN KIBBIE Color by................................................................................................................ DELUXE® Color Timer ......................................................................................................... CHRIS REGAN ............................................................................................................................. GEORGE CHAVEZ SAG Liaisons ...................................................................................................... KAREN BORELL ............................................................................................................................. JANE LEE Dolby Liaison ...................................................................................................... LOUISE STEVENSON Dolby Sound Consultant ..................................................................................... BRYAN ARENAS Music Consultant ................................................................................................ TRACY LYNCH-SANCHEZ Grip & Lighting Equipment by ............................................................................. REDMAN MOVIES & STORIES ............................................................................................................................. BRYAN CLIFTON Insurance Provided by ........................................................................................ DIVERSIFIED INSURANCE BROKERS ............................................................................................................................. SCOTT McCLELLAND Payroll Services .................................................................................................. ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS Distribution Advisory Services ............................................................................ CINETIC MEDIA

Special Thanks TOM AND KRISMAS ADAMS RICHARD ALDER ERIC ALLRED STEVE ANDERSON CITY OF POCATELLO ROD BOAM TONY & SHARON CIMMIO NANCY COLLINS JONATHAN AND KIRSTEN COON WAYNE AND KATHIE COON LISA EDELMAN MAGIC FILM & VIDEO WORKS ERIC GREEN JOHN & LINDA HAFEN RICHARD HALPERN BOB HARVEY KEN HOBBS KENT & DELORES HOBBS JACKIE MADDOCK POP N PINS SHAN PETERSON CAROLYN & BLAYNE ROUNDS ROMA SMITH NICHOLAS TERRY AMOTZ ZAKAI ANSER-FONE ANTHONY & SHARON CIMMINO BOB & NANCY EGBERT DR. GREGG & BARBARA NIELSEN WORM CREEK THEATER GOSSNER™S MILK CITY NATIONAL BANK RICHARD McCUNE CAROL FRANCIS BARNES, MORRIS, KLEIN, PAMELA S. HICKS MARK, YORN, BARNES & LEVINE DAVID KRINTZMAN PRESTON DESERET INDUSTRIES JOHN BALLS LINDA CALL THOMAS CATANI DR. H.M. OMAHA D.D.S. DR. LARRY STOKES D.D.S. BIG J™S MARK GIBBY LARRY HOBBS ELDEAN and PEGGY HOLLIDAY CAL HUGIE VAL JENSEN SHERWIN LARSEN ED And CONNIE MOSER GLADE & PEGGY MOSER PLAZA MOTEL

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GENI NIELSON NOEL NIELSON LYLE PORTER SHAME RYNES LA TIENDA GAS STATION KELLY SPACKMAN BELLE & CHRIS SPENCE ISABEL SPENCE DEL RA TALBOT KATHY THOMAS NAOMI THOMAS PRESTON HIGH SCHOOL JERRY WADDUPS GERTIE WEBB DAVE WOODWARD PATRICK ZOOK GENE & SHIRLY WILLIAMS JOHNSON RESERVOIR FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR BOARD CITY OF PRESTON JAY HEUSSER UTAH FILM COMMISSION LORETTE BAYLE FRITO LAY THE AMERICAN FFA SYLVIA ESPLIN

ChapStick trade dress used by permission of Wyeth

This film was shot entirely on location in the beautiful state of

IDAHO

“THE ROSE” Written by Amanda McBroom

“FOREVER YOUNG”

Written by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens

Performed by Alphaville Courtesy of Warner Music Germany GmbH

By arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

“THE A-TEAM (THEME)” Written by Michael Post, Clarence E. Carpenter

“CANNED HEAT”

Performed by Jamiroquai Written by Jason Kay, Toby Smith, Derrick MacKenzie, Simon Katz, Sola Akingbola, Wallis Buchanan

Courtesy of Epic Records and Sony Music Entertainment (U.K.) Ltd.

By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

“OLD SCHOOL ANTICS” Written and Performed by Steve Adams

“TIME AFTER TIME”

Written by Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper Performed by Cyndi Lauper Courtesy of Epic Records

By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

“LARGER THAN LIFE Written by Brian Littrell,

Kristian Lundin, Max Martin Performed by Backstreet Boys

Courtesy of Jive Records Under license from BMG Film & TV Music

“MUSIC FOR A FOUND HARMONIUM”

Written by Simon Harry Jeffes Performed by Penguin Café Orchestra

Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd. Under license from

EMI Film & Television Music

“THE PROMISE”

Written by Farrington, Floreale, Mann Performed by When In Rome

Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd. Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

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