Election (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
Reading. Writing. Revenge.
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Reese Witherspoon & Matthew Broderick | |
Performer: | Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik & Phil Reeves | |
Directed by | Alexander Payne | |
Edited by | Kevin Tent | |
Screenwriting by | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor | |
Original story by | Tom Perrotta | |
Produced by | Albert Berger, David Gale, Keith Samples, Ron Yerxa & Rolfe Kent | |
Director of Photography: | James Glennon |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Briskly paced, painfully funny and pretty much unmissable... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Total Film
An instant classic, Alexander Payne's 1999 high school comedy seems even more scathing now that we're losing control of our own election machinery.
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Chicago Reader
Alexander Payne's Election remains one of the best political satire comedies of all time.
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Solzy at the Movies
Alexander Payne's wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999.
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Stream on Demand
The comedy may not resonate as deeply as the well-named Payne intends, but between Witherspoon's exuberant solipsism and Broderick's talent for absorbing massive humiliation, the chuckles keep coming like poisoned darts.
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Newsweek
Broderick gives a wonderfully nebbishy performance, and the filmmakers do a fine job of using visual cues to define the smallness of his world.
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The Verge
...Mr. Broderick knows how to make a fool of himself in very funny ways, and he gives a sneakily good performance here...
New York Times
Product Description:
Director Alexander (CITIZEN RUTH) Payne's second film, based on the novel by Tom Perotta, takes the scandal and mudslinging associated with presidential elections and transposes them to a high school election for student council president in Nebraska- with impossibly sharp, satirical results. Matthew Broderick, in a reversal of FERRIS BUELLER, plays Jim McAllister, a teacher who will stop at nothing to prevent perfect Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), who is running unopposed, from winning the election. Jim, who bears a personal grudge against Tracy, goads a popular but dim football player (Chris Klein) into running against her. This spurs on a series of strange events (both madcap and surprisingly sexual), which add up to an uncommonly funny high school film for adults. Performances are great all-around, and Payne uses shifting narration and a series of freeze frames to give the film a rich and layered feel.
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