Wes Anderson directed a coming-of-age comedy-drama film in 1998 titled ‘Rushmore.’ The film is about an eccentric adolescent named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), his friendship with wealthy industrialist Herman Blume, and their shared love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross. Anderson intended for the film’s soundtrack to be solely made up of songs by The Kinks, believing that the music suited Max’s loud and aggressive temperament, as well as the fact that Max was originally conceived as a British exchange student.
Anderson and Owen Wilson collaborated on the screenplay. Several songs from bands linked with the British Invasion of the 1960s appear on the soundtrack. In November 1997, filming began in and around Houston, Texas.
Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman’s careers were launched by the film, while Bill Murray established a second career as a respected performer in independent filmmaking. Anderson was named Best Director and Murray was named Best Supporting Male at the 1999 Independent Spirit Awards.
Murray also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He has been Anderson’s collaborator in all of the director’s subsequent films since Rushmore. Despite being a flop movie at the box office, it received excellent reviews from reviewers. The Library of Congress chose the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2016 because it was deemed ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.’
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