Rating of
3/4
Rushmore review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/21/11
Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is a bizarre and active 15 year old who studies in Rushmore who has joined almost every extracurricular activity. Herman Blume (Bill Murray) is a rich businessman who befriends Max. Both fall for a widowed teacher named Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). Max boasts to everyone that his father is neurosurgeon but is in fact a barber. Dirk (Mason Gamble), a friend of Max, divulges the affair of Herman to him. Both Max and Herman ruin each others lives. Max helps out his father in cutting people’s hair. He then creates another play with a new found female friend.
It had a fabulous script with the following quotes from the movie: Herman – “Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone.” “Kids don't like it when their parents get divorced.” Max – “The secret, I don't know... I guess you've just gotta find something you love to do and then... do it for the rest of your life.” “The truth is, neither one of us has the slightest idea where this relationship is going. We can't predict the future.” The soundtrack and direction was excellently executed. Only qualms this reviewer had were the acting of Williams, lack of a better plot, rudeness of teenagers that ruins the protagonist’s character and how unrealistic swiftly things went to make it positive in the conclusion and an adult lending a large amount of money for his personal gain. Overall, Rushmore is a comedic film of time management, forgiveness, maturity, familial relationship, friendship, staying grounded, trust and ambition.
