Rushmore

Max Fischer is a scholarship student, fifteen years old, who takes part in numerous extracurricular activities at Rushmore, a private school in Houston. His grades, however, don't keep up. His middle-class background contrasts with the affluent lives of most of his classmates, and that fuels his determination to make a name for himself at the school. When the headmaster, Nelson Guggenheim, places him on sudden-death academic probation, Max knows that if he fails one more subject, he will be expelled. Directed by Wes Anderson, the film opens with this tug-of-war between a determined boy eager to stand out and an institution that is beginning to keep count of his failures.