Napoleon Dynamite

My 17 year old son is really bored. No friends around, and nothing to do. I can always find something to waste copious amounts of time, and I am seldom bored, except by tasks that have to be done (like cleaning) but he seems to get bored easily, and when he is bored, he gets depressed. When I got home last night he wanted to go see a movie. The only time he found was 9:45. Now I like to go to bed at a reasonable time, and I'm not a big advocate of going to the movies on a weeknight, but when we found a 9:20 showing, I went with him.

Napoleon Dynamite is a very different movie. This takes the "not fitting in during High School" to the extreme. Napoleon wears his pants too high and his t-shirts tucked in tight. He lives with his brother who spends his day surfing the net, and his grandmother who quickly disappears from the story when she is injured riding dune buggies on the beach! His uncle moves into the house, and he is frozen in 1982 when his football coach didn't put him into the big game. The characters in this movie are all stereotypes, but the story rings true, if in an exagerated way. And of course, Napoleon finally comes out of his shell, wins the right girl, and all is right with the world.

Question, does that ever really happen in real life? Would teenagers from middle America really abandon the head cheerleader and her group to follow a group of misfits? Not likely....