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Election

starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Phil Reeves
directed by: Alexander Payne

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792158912
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792158911
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 19, 1999
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 9211
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 07, 1999



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Product Description:
A popular teacher and a go-getter student square off in this comic caper about a high school election. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Reese Witherspoon Matthew Broderick Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: Alexander Payne

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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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good morning, Mr. M. Looks like you could use a CUPCAKE!
Election is a comedy about a High School election, but it is told primarily from the point-of-view ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - It's not about me, so how good can it be...?
First off, I bought this movie thinking it would be about me, but it turned out to be about a lot of ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Immature . . . and I don't just mean the characters
To quote my mother, "Wow. Where the Hell did THAT go?"

What a juvenile movie. This one ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An Enjoyable Flick with Flick!
There are over 200 reviews for this disc...

Let's just say it's not a slapstick comedy, but ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Next Female President . . .
You've probably seen the snippet on YouTube that proclaims "Hillary Clinton IS Tracy Flick!" Well, my friends, ... Read More

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