Election (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
Reading. Writing. Revenge.
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- 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:
...A wicked satire....[Witherspoon] hits her full stride in ELECTION...
Chicago Sun-Times
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
Rating: 8/10 --
The lack of emotion and seriousness with which some of his characters behave is surprisingly amusing. It's like Wes Anderson without the twee set designs and world-building.
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PopMatters
...Sharp and merciless....A cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there...
Los Angeles Times
...Devilishly subversive....Scathing, smart and serious-funny....When it comes to eloquently telling it like it is, ELECTION puts the nation's political pundits to shame...
USA Today
Rating: 3/5 --
Suffers from a tyrannical sameness of tone where Payne doesn't trust his audience to 'get' the crashing subtext, so he batters them over the head with it for nearly two hours
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Patrick Nabarro
Election at first has the feel of a simple work. But don't let that fool you; it's a complex, deep tale.
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Associated Press
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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- UPC: 715515207218
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