Election

Release Date: 2000-03-07, Rating R (Restricted),

Release Date: 1999-10-19, Rating R (Restricted),

Director Alexander CITIZEN RUTH Payne's second film based on the novel by Tom 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 Chris Klein into running against her. This spurs on a series of strange events both madcap and surprisingly sexual which add up to an uncommonly funny high school film for adults. Performances are great all-around and Payne uses shifting narration and a series of freeze frames to give the film a rich and layered feel.

Product DetailsOriginal Title:Election (Reese Witherspoon) Actors: Chris Klein - Jessica Campbell - Matthew Broderick - Phil Reeves - Reese WitherspoonCondit ion: NEWFormat: DVDDirector: Alexander PayneRuntime: 103 minsLanguage: English Subtitle: English SubtitlesDiscs/Ca ssettes: 1Genre: Comedy

Comedy - general DVD - In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the current state of American politics. Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a popular and well-respected instructor at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska, but lately he's been unhappy in both his personal and professional life, and his anxieties finally come to a head with the school's student elections. Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is running for student body president, and she certainly seems like the sort of girl who would win a high school election -- she's pretty, popular and takes part in all the right extra-curricular activities. In fact, she seems so perfect she's running unopposed, which offends McAllister's sense of democracy (not to mention the fact he doesn't like her very much). So Jim intervenes and persuades Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) to run against Tracy. Paul is not terribly bright and is entirely unqualified to be student president, but as a star of the sch