Election (1999)

Director: Alexander Payne  Starring: Reese Witherspoon  Matthew Broderick  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097363340379
Buy.com Sku: 40687860
Item#: VMY6HQ
Category Keywords: Elections  Essential Cinema  High School Experiences  High School Students  Satire  Theatrical Release 
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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
Region 1
Special Edition
Letterbox - 1.85
Disc: SPECIAL EDITION
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: by director Alexander Payne


 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: 4/19/2007
Running Time: 103 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999
Catalog ID: 334037
UPC: 00097363340379
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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