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Product Information
An election campaign at the local high school is turning out to be a one horse race. However the history teacher has other ideas and he decides to look for other candidates.
Product Identifiers
ProducerKeith Samples, Ron Yerxa, David Gale, Rolfe Kent, Albert Berger
EAN5014437803634
eBay Product ID (ePID)3948858
Product Key Features
ActorChris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Phil Reeves, Mark Harelik, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick
FeaturesAudio Commentary with Director Alexander Payne, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Additional InformationDirector Alexander (CITIZEN RUTH) Payne's second film, based on the novel by Jim Perotta, takes the scandal and mudslinging associated with presidential elections and transposes them to a high school election for student council president in Nebraska- with impossibly sharp, satirical results. Matthew Broderick, in a reversal of FERRIS BUELLER, plays Jim McAllister, a teacher who will stop at nothing to prevent perfect Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), who is running unopposed, from winning the election. Jim, who bears a personal grudge against Tracy, goads a popular but dim football player into running against her. This spurs on a series strange events, (both madcap and surprisingly sexual) which add up to an uncommonly funny high school film for grown ups. Performances are great all-around and Payne uses shifting-narration and a series of freeze frames which give the film a rich and layered feel.
ReviewsVariety - [An] insidiously funny satire... Smart, sophisticated, New York Times - Broderick knows how to make a fool of himself in very funny ways, and he gives a sneakily good performance here, Total Film - Briskly paced, painfully funny and pretty much unmissable, Sight And Sound - ELECTION is a wonderfully acidulous satire... [The film] turns the usual conventions of the high-school comedy on their head