Election
by Alexander Payne
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Actor: Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Matthew Broderick, Phil Reeves, Reese WitherspoonDirector: Alexander Payne
Brand: BRODERICK,MATTHEW
Writer: Alexander Payne
Producer: Albert Berger
Producer: David Gale
Producer: Jacobus Rose
Producer: Jim Burke
Writer: Jim Taylor
Writer: Tom Perrotta
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 103 minutes
Published: 1999-10-01
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Summary of Election
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter, is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Matthew Broderick makes up for years of wet-noodle performances with his low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, Paul (Chris Klein from American Pie), to run against her in the election for student-council president. Director-cowriter Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth) turns this deceptively simple premise into a complex and scathing comedy of ambition, corruption, and desire, all at its most naked and petty. Every scene contains some painfully funny nuance that will make you wince in a mixture of astonishment and empathy. Witherspoon flips effortlessly back and forth from adolescent vulnerability to steely-eyed strength; she's becoming a contemporary Carole Lombard. The movie itself feels like a magnificent throwback to the richly layered comedies of the '30s, which drew their humor from sharply drawn characters and twisting plots instead of explosions of bodily fluids. With a wealth of smart, cutting details, Election rewards multiple viewing. --Bret Fetzer
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