In one of the best throwaway scenes in movies, Uncle Rico sounds a lot like Al Bundy in his bragging about his football skills here. Made on a shoestring indie budget, Napoleon Dynamite became the ...

If Jon looks familiar there’s a reason, and viewers are wondering if the actor also played Uncle Rico in 2004’s Napoleon Dynamite. “They were almost done cutting the movie, and Jory Weitz ...

The cult classic coming-of-age movie Napoleon Dynamite turned 20 last year, but the main characters—Napoleon, Pedro, and Uncle Rico—are still kicking around their old stomping grounds. About five ...

(WDBJ) - The beloved indie classic “Napoleon Dynamite” is one ... including Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who’s obsessed with re-claiming his former football glory. Gries says many of us can ...

“But let’s face it,” said Jon Gries (aka Uncle Rico). “If it were released today, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ might ... for class president and an ex-football star babysitting his nephews ...

Few directorial debuts have hit as hard as, or had the kind of life cycle of, “Napoleon ... home life with his Uncle Rico (Jon Gries), still trapped by his high school football glory days ...