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Retrosprctive Napoleon Dynamite

It’s such a personal film to me,” smiles Jon Heder in LA, casting his mind back to the creation of 2004’s unexpected indie-hit Napoleon Dynamite. “Whether it’s fan mail or meeting someone in the street, I hear about Napoleon almost every day and, because of that, it feels like it never went away. We had such a fun time making it.”

Before Heder became synonymous with the blond ’fro, chunky moon boots and enviable dance skills of awkward high-schooler Napoleon

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