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 ...

Fox Searchlight/courtesy Everett The quirky, quotable 2004 indie pic Napoleon Dynamite ... Napoleon's Uncle Rico was obsessed with recapturing his glory days as a high school football star.

(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 ...

Everybody has their own favorite Napoleon Dynamite quote ... about online dating when talking to his and Napoleon’s uncle, Rico (The White Lotus Season 2 cast member Jon Gries).

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 ...