Election (1999)

Director: Alexander Payne  Starring: Reese Witherspoon  Matthew Broderick  
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Publisher: Paramount
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097363340348
Buy.com Sku: 40166964
Item#: VVJCTF
Buy.com Sales Rank: 26834
Category Keywords: Elections  Essential Cinema  High School Experiences  High School Students  Satire  Theatrical Release 
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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1) Surround Sound
 
Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAlister (Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
 


Editor's Note

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.

 
Features
Widescreen Presentation
Subtitles: English
Commentary with director Alexander Payne
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
 
Entertainment Reviews
Election (1999) - DVD Review
By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews
Published on: 1/9/2009 4:44 PM
Talk about redemption. After starring in some of favorite movies ever, Matthew Broderick had to go and make Godzilla. Election proves that once again he should stick with comedy, with this little gem easily ranking as one of the top comedies in recent memory, and the best thing to ever come out of MTV’s film division. (Then again, Broderick’s next pic is Inspector Gadget... dunno what to make of that one.)...read the full review

 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: 1/16/2007
Running Time: 103 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999
Catalog ID: 334034
UPC: 00097363340348
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Available Subtitles: English
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Jessica Campbell
Reese Witherspoon
Matthew Broderick
Phil Reeves
Chris Klein
Mark Harelik
Keith Samples - Producer
Rolfe Kent - Producer
Kevin Tent - Editor
James Glennon - Director of Photography
Tom Perrotta - Source Writer
Jim Taylor - Screenwriter
Alexander Payne - Screenwriter
Ron Yerxa - Producer
David Gale - Producer
Jane Stewart - Production Designer
Albert Berger - Producer
Alexander Payne - Director

 
Professional Reviews
Variety
"...[An] insidiously funny satire....Smart, sophisticated..." 5/19-25/1999 p.46-50

Sight and Sound
"...ELECTION is a wonderfully acidulous satire....[The film] turns the usual conventions of the high-school comedy on their head..." 10/??/1999 p.43

Total Film
"...Briskly paced, painfully funny and pretty much unmissable..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 06/01/2000 p.98

New York Times
"...Mr. Broderick knows how to make a fool of himself in very funny ways, and he gives a sneakily good performance here..." 04/23/1999 p.E21

USA Today
"...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..." 04/23/1999 p.8E

Los Angeles Times
"...Sharp and merciless....A cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there..." 04/23/1999 p.F1

Chicago Sun-Times
"...A wicked satire....[Witherspoon] hits her full stride in ELECTION..." 04/30/1999 p.31

  
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