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Fifteen years ago Tuesday, on June 11, 2004, Utah filmmakers, BYU graduates and married couple Jerusha and Jared Hess gave the world "Napoleon Dynamite." What started as a $400,000 indie film shot in Jared Hess's Preston, Idaho, hometown turned into a national movie phenomenon that eventually made over $44 million at the domestic box office and another $130 million in DVD sales.
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