Rushmore
By: Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Owen, 1968-
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Other titles: Rushmore (Motion picture)
Description: "Rushmore is the story of a gifted, iconoclastic youth called Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), a 10th-grader at the elite, conservative Rushmore Academy, who rocks the boat with his restless intellect and madcap entrepreneurial schemes which tend towards failure. Editor of the school paper, captain or president of innumerable clubs and societies, director of the radical theatre company Max Fischer Players - Max is also one of the worst students in the school, and the threat of expulsion hangs permanently over his head." "But Max's own world is rocked when he falls for elegant 1st-grade teacher Miss Cross (Olivia Williams), and plans to erect an aquarium at Rushmore in her honor - then finds himself competing for her favor with his friend, steel tycoon Mr Blume (Bill Murray), the wealthy father of two of his classmates ..."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Script for the motion picture, Rushmore.