This short film is obviously a precursor to what became the independent feature film Napoleon Dynamite. Jon Heder is a character named Seth instead of Napoleon. He's still the same Uber-geek thinking he's a cool kid. Sarah Barton is the girl, playing a similar role to the one she had in Napoleon. Director Jared Hess parlayed this film into a pitch for Napoleon Dynamite on the festival circuit and the resulting film followed a year later. However, viewers should be warned that this is a very rough draft as they say. The scene on the school bus is repeated almost verbatim in the actual film a year later. All the actors were fellow residents of Preston, Idaho except Heder. * of 4 stars.
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