Election

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.

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"...[An] insidiously funny satire....Smart, sophisticated..." -- Todd McCarthy , (Variety)

"...ELECTION is a wonderfully acidulous satire....[The film] turns the usual conventions of the high-school comedy on their head..." -- Geoffrey Macnab , (Sight and Sound)

"...Briskly paced, painfully funny and pretty much unmissable..." -- 4 out of 5 stars -- James White , (Total Film)

"...Mr. Broderick knows how to make a fool of himself in very funny ways, and he gives a sneakily good performance here..." -- Janet Maslin , (New York Times)

"...Devilishly subversive....Scathing, smart and serious-funny....When it comes to eloquently telling it like it is, ELECTION puts the nation's political pundits to shame..." -- Susan Wloszczyna , (USA Today)

"...Sharp and merciless....A cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there..." -- Kenneth Turan , (Los Angeles Times)

"...A wicked satire....[Witherspoon] hits her full stride in ELECTION..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times)

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