Election

Election

DVD - 2017

Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister 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.

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Subjects
High school students > Drama.
High school students > Conduct of life > Drama.
High school teachers > Drama.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection [2017]
Language
English
Other Authors
Alexander Payne, 1961- (screenwriter), Jim Taylor, 1962- (film producer), Albert (Motion picture producer) Berger (actor), Ron Yerxa (-), Reese Witherspoon, 1976-, Matthew Broderick, 1962-, Chris Klein, 1979-, Tom Perrotta, 1961-
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
Item Description
Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Wide screen (2.40:1).
Special features: audio commentary from 2008 featuring Payne; new interview with Payne; new interview with Reese Witherspoon; The passion of Martin, Payne's 1991 UCLA senior thesis film; Trulnside: "Election," a 2016 documentary; essay by critic Dana Stevans.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality, sex-related dialogue and language, and a scene of drug use.
Production Credits
Music, Rolfe Kent ; editor, Kevin Tent ; photography, James Glennon.
ISBN
9781681433868
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Running for high school student body president, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) proves to be a solicitous overachiever who gets under the skin of her social studies teacher (Matthew Broderick) in -Alexander Payne's (Sideways) sneakily subversive dramedy. With its multiple points of view derived from Tom Perrotta's novel, this way-smarter-than-average film adaptation skewers politics-electoral and sexual-en route to a wider commentary on human nature. Winning the Independent Spirit Award provided a measure of compensation for its unfortunate box office failure. [See Trailers, LJ 11/1/17.] © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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