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This week on Total Movie Recall, we try to decide whether this is a charming, unique film about staying true to yourself, or a nightmarish descent into the insanity that comes with living in a barren, desolate landscape like rural Idaho, where the Uncle Ricos of the world keep subterranean dungeons for unsuspecting Debs. This might say more about where our heads are at right now than about this beloved comedy.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

d. Jared Hess

w. Jared Hess,\\xa0Jerusha Hess

Starring:
Jon Heder
Efren Ramirez
Jon Gries
Aaron Ruell
Diedrich Bader
Tina Majorino
Sandy Martin

In small-town Preston, Idaho, awkward teen Napoleon Dynamite has trouble fitting in. After his grandmother is injured in an accident, his life is made even worse when his strangely nostalgic uncle, Rico, shows up to keep an eye on him. With no safe haven at home or at school,\\xa0Napoleon befriends the new kid, Pedro, a morose Hispanic boy who speaks little English. Together the two launch a campaign to run for class president.

Things discussed in the show:

Russian movie posters

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson,\\xa0Faye Dunaway,\\xa0John Huston)

Dumbo (Disney, Samuel Armstrong, Sterling Holloway,\\xa0Edward Brophy,\\xa0Herman Bing)

Kung Fu Cult Master

Real Steel (Shawn Levy, Hugh Jackman,\\xa0Evangeline Lilly,\\xa0Dakota Goyo)

Robot Jox

Rocky (John G. Avildsen, Sylvester Stallone,\\xa0Talia Shire,\\xa0Burt Young)

Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme,\\xa0Harrison Page,\\xa0Deborah Rennard)

Switchback (Jeb Stuart, Danny Glover,\\xa0Dennis Quaid,\\xa0Claudia Stedelin, Jared Leto)

Killing Eve season 3 (Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw)

Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Kang-ho Song,\\xa0Lee Sun-kyun,\\xa0Yeo-jeong Cho)

Snowpiercer\\xa0(Bong Joon Ho,\\xa0Chris Evans,\\xa0Jamie Bell,\\xa0Tilda Swinton,\\xa0Octavia Spencer,\\xa0Ed Harris)

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Juno (Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody, Elliot Page,\\xa0Michael Cera,\\xa0Jennifer Garner)

Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton,\\xa0Valerie Faris, Steve Carell,\\xa0Toni Collette,\\xa0Greg Kinnear)

Jack White

Jamiroquai

Wes Anderson

Trapper Keepers

Rushmore (Wes Anderson,\\xa0Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman,\\xa0Bill Murray,\\xa0Olivia Williams)

Gummo (Harmony Korine, Nick Sutton,\\xa0Jacob Sewell,\\xa0Lara Tosh)

Julian Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine, Ewen Bremner,\\xa0Brian Fisk,\\xa0Chlo\\xeb Sevigny)

No Country for Old Men\\xa0(Ethan Coen,\\xa0Joel Coen,\\xa0Tommy Lee Jones,\\xa0Javier Bardem,\\xa0Josh Brolin)

Cormac McCarthy \\u2013 Blood Meridian

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford,\\xa0Karen Allen,\\xa0Paul Freeman)

Peluca - Short film

Blades of Glory (Josh Gordon,\\xa0Will Speck, Jeff Cox,\\xa0Craig Cox, Will Ferrell,\\xa0Jon Heder,\\xa0Amy Poehler)

Dungeons & Dragons

Heathers

House Party

Bone Tomahawk\\xa0(Kurt Russell,\\xa0Patrick Wilson,\\xa0Matthew Fox,\\xa0Richard Jenkins,\\xa0S. Craig Zahler)

BTK Killer

Atlanta local spots: Manuel\'s Tavern, 529 Bar

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman,\\xa0Jon Voight,\\xa0Sylvia Miles)

Elvis Costello

Who\'s Line is it Anyway?

The Drew Carey Show (Drew Carey,\\xa0Bruce Helford,\\xa0Diedrich Bader,\\xa0Kathy Kinney)

High school dances as ritual, an anthropological study

Community\\xa0(Dan Harmon,\\xa0Joel McHale,\\xa0Danny Pudi,\\xa0Donald Glover,\\xa0Gillian Jacobs,\\xa0Alison Brie,\\xa0Ken Jeong,\\xa0Yvette Nicole Brown,\\xa0Jim Rash,\\xa0Chevy Chase, Troy Barnes)

Ligers - centaurs and Dungeons and Dragons little brown books

X-Files - Jersey Devil episode (Joe Napolitano, Chris Carter, David Duchovny,\\xa0Gillian Anderson,\\xa0Mitch Pileggi)

Bat Boy from Weekly World News

Wesley Snipes

The Jackalope and Dave Coulier

Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Stray Cats

Next week: From Dusk Till Dawn