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Ep. 199: Napoleon Dynamite
Episode 10
Saturday, 6 September, 2025

"Sleeper Hit" is a term that is used to define a movie that comes out of nowhere to be a big hit. One of the shining examples of this 2004's Napoleon Dynamite. After crushing it on the festival circuit, this $400,000 movie went on to make over $4O million dollars at the box office, and became a cultural touchstone of the 2000's in the process. How exactly did this movie become such a big hit with so many? We talk about it.

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