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Election

1999

Alexander Payne

Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Mark Harelik ...

6.5

7,992

Comedy Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver Highs student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracys obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. Citizen Ruth director Payne once again tackles political processes, this time within a public high school. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Alexander Payne’s second feature brandishes the sort of intelligent wit and bracing nastiness that will make it more appealing to discerning adults than to teens who just want to have fun"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"A hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream (...) Payne finds a perfect fulcrum between humor and tragedy, between black comedy and poignancy."	POS
United States	Charles Bramesco IndieWire	"Reese Witherspoon’s ruthless go-getter remains fascinatingly toxic in Alexander Payne’s bleak and biting political comedy"	POS
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"The treatment of this touchy material is impressive, neither gratuitous nor mincing, but this 1999 satirical comedy doesn't really go anywhere"	NEU
United States	Elisabeth Donnelly Vanity Fair	"Time has been good to Election, a film based on an early novel by author and screenwriter Tom Perrotta. It’s one of those stories that only seems to become more sharp and prescient with age"	POS

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