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List Price: $9.98Amazon.com's Price: $5.99 You Save: $3.99 (40%)Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792158912
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792158911
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 19, 1999
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 2736
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 07, 1999
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A popular teacher and a go-getter student square off in this comic caper about a high school election. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Reese Witherspoon Matthew Broderick Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: Alexander Payne
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Matthew Broderick makes up for years of wet-noodle performances with his low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, Paul (Chris Klein from American Pie), to run against her in the election for student-council president. Director-cowriter Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth) turns this deceptively simple premise into a complex and scathing comedy of ambition, corruption, and desire, all at its most naked and petty. Every scene contains some painfully funny nuance that will make you wince in a mixture of astonishment and empathy. Witherspoon flips effortlessly back and forth from adolescent vulnerability to steely-eyed strength; she's becoming a contemporary Carole Lombard. The movie itself feels like a magnificent throwback to the richly layered comedies of the '30s, which drew their humor from sharply drawn characters and twisting plots instead of explosions of bodily fluids. With a wealth of smart, cutting details, Election rewards multiple viewing. --Bret Fetzer
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Election is a comedy about a High School election, but it is told primarily from the point-of-view of teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick). Scenes of teachers sabotaging their student's hopes and dreams out of bitter resentment for their own failures are a staple of the coming of age genre, but usually the teachers are just a minor speed bump on the major character's road to destiny. Here, the film stays with the teacher, who seems to be a decent fellow except for some major character flaws ... Read More
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First off, I bought this movie thinking it would be about me, but it turned out to be about a lot of boring people and stuff the director self-importantly thinks worth making a movie about. And it needs a editor, it's way too long for me to focus on, with a lot of meandering thinking and reflection, none of which is about me, or is worth my time, which is very limited, as the director ought to know, and it's not even about stuff that I can talk to other people about -- it's too uncool to talk about ... Read More
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To quote my mother, "Wow. Where the Hell did THAT go?"
What a juvenile movie. This one seriously needed a hormone-ectomy. Illogical sexual entanglements and product-placement swearing don't substitute for genuine cleverness. One got the feeling that the directors felt the need to have a character spit out the F-word right into the camera every ten minutes, or whenever the plot started to stumble, to make sure the audience was still paying attention. I mean, I get that it was supposed ... Read More
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Let's just say it's not a slapstick comedy, but it doesn't try to be. It is witty, clever, and full of self-depricating humor. Broderick is in his element.
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You've probably seen the snippet on YouTube that proclaims "Hillary Clinton IS Tracy Flick!" Well, my friends, it's true. If you enjoyed that little scene, you must revisit Alexander Payne's darkly comic 1999 gem and see for yourself how oddly prescient it was in depicting the precise dynamic going on now in American presidential politics. Reese Witherspoon is Tracy, a rabidly ambitious high school student in Omaha, Nebraska (Director Payne's hometown, which he also lovingly lampooned in "About Schmidt"), ... Read More
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