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Election (1999)

English · DVD

US Version | Region code 1
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Perky, 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 Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast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 its bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.

Product details

Actor Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein
Director Alexander Payne
Label Paramount
 
Languages English
Content DVD
FSK / age rating from age 0
Publication date 19.10.1999
Genre Comedy
 
Length 103 minutes
Audio English (Dolby Surround 5.1)
Subtitles English
Screen 16/9
Year of production 1999
Original title Election
Region code 1
Version US Version
 

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  • Politik

    Written on 10. October 2003 by dps.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Spannender Film über die Mechanismen der Politik am Beispiel einer High-School-Schülervertretung illustriert. Sehr gut gelungen!

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