Wes Anderson's breakthrough stars Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, an overachieving, extracurricular-obsessed prep-school misfit who falls for a widowed first-grade teacher and enters an escalating rivalry with Bill Murray's melancholy industrialist for her affection. The film crystallized Anderson's meticulous visual style — symmetrical framing, deadpan line readings, needle-drop soundtrack — while giving Murray one of his first great dramatic-comic roles of his career revival. Funny and unexpectedly poignant, it's widely regarded as the film where Anderson's aesthetic fully arrived.