Two years after Bottle Rocket hit theaters, Anderson released Rushmore, which fully launched his decorated career. While the movie didn’t do too well commercially either, grossing a little over ...

In the finished film, a Frank Lloyd Wright-like house and the mythical "Cedar City," complete with an airport, perch at Mount Rushmore's summit. During the movie's climax, Thornhill, Kendall ...

It might be from any of his seven appearances in Wes Anderson's movies, from his film debut as enterprising teen Max Fischer in 1998's "Rushmore" to 2023's "Asteroid City," in which he took on a ...

The profile looks into Anderson’s earliest days as a director, his decision to film “Rushmore” in Houston, and why the movie “holds some special place in this city’s sense of self.” ...

Some of the most famous images of Mount Rushmore are from Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic spy movie, North by Northwest. Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter, recalled being asked by "Hitch" to come up ...

Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of ...