Election/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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Albert Berger, Alexander Payne, Amy Falcone, Brian Tobin, Categories, Chris Klein, Christa Young, Colleen Camp, Comedy Video, CRITERION, Criterion Collection, David Gale, David Wenzel, Delaney Driscoll, Dondi Bastone, Emily Martin, Frankie Igrassia, Frankie Ingrassia, George Parra, Heather Koenig, Holmes Osborne, James Devney, Jason Paige, Jeanine Jackson, Jeannie Brayman, Jessica Campbell, Jillian Crane, Jim Taylor, Joel Parks, Jonathan Marion, Keith Samples, L. Carmen Novoa, Larry Kaiser, Loren Nelson, Marilyn Tipp, Mark Harelik, Matt Golden, Matt Justesen, Matt Malloy, Matthew Broderick, Molly Hagan, Nicholas D'Agosto, Nick D'Agosto, Nick Kenny, Phil Reeves, Reese Witherspoon, Rolfe Kent, Ron Yerxa, Tom PerrottaPerky, overachieving Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control. In Alexander Payne's satire ELECTION, the teacher becomes unhealthily obsessed with cutting his student down to size, covertly backing a spoiler candidate to stop her from steamrolling to victory, and putting in motion a series of dirty tricks and reckless promises with uncanny real-world political parallels. Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast is rounded out with nonprofessionals and distills his closely observed take on deeply flawed humanity to it's bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.
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