<P> Napoleon Dynamite is a socially awkward 16 - year - old boy from Preston , Idaho , who lives with his grandmother , Carlinda Dynamite , and his older brother , Kipling Ronald `` Kip '' Dynamite . Kip , 32 , is unemployed and boasts of spending hours on Internet chat rooms with his girlfriends and aspiring to be a cage fighter . Napoleon daydreams his way through school , doodling ligers and fantasy creatures and reluctantly deals with the various bullies who torment him , particularly the obnoxious sports jock , Don . Napoleon likes to make up stories about himself and his outlandish `` skills '' while having a sullen and aloof personality . </P>
<P> Napoleon Dynamite is a socially awkward 16 - year - old boy from Preston , Idaho , who lives with his grandmother , Carlinda Dynamite , and his older brother , Kipling Ronald `` Kip '' Dynamite . Kip , 32 , is unemployed and boasts of spending hours on Internet chat rooms with his girlfriends and aspiring to be a cage fighter . Napoleon daydreams his way through school , doodling ligers and fantasy creatures and reluctantly deals with the various bullies who torment him , particularly the obnoxious sports jock , Don . Napoleon likes to make up stories about himself and his outlandish `` skills '' while having a sullen and aloof personality . </P>
what state does napoleon dynamite take place in
what state does napoleon dynamite take place in
Preston , Idaho
Preston , Idaho