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Election (1999)

R 04/23/1999 (US) Comedy, Drama 1h 43m

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Reading. Writing. Revenge.

Overview

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.

Alexander Payne

Director, Screenplay
Tom Perrotta

Novel
Jim Taylor

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Matthew Broderick

Jim McAllister
Reese Witherspoon

Tracy Enid Flick
Chris Klein

Paul Metzler
Jessica Campbell

Tammy Metzler
Mark Harelik

Dave Novotny
Phil Reeves

Walt Hendricks
Molly Hagan

Diane McAllister
Delaney Driscoll

Linda Novotny
Colleen Camp

Judith R. Flick
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A review by Wuchak

60%

Written by Wuchak on September 14, 2018

Amusing and compelling high school dramedy with Broderick and Witherspoon

When a high achiever student (Reese Witherspoon) runs for president of the student body at her Omaha high school one of her teachers (Matthew Broderick) encourages an amiable jock to run against her (Chris Klein) because he finds her irritating.

“Election” (1999) is a quirky high school dramedy in the mold of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (1982), but with a unique plot revolving around a school election. It’s not raunchy like the contemporaneous “American Pie” (except for one line by a teacher early on), but it i... read the rest.

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