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Product DescriptionA 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 PayneAmazon.com essential videoMatthew B
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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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