Critic Reviews
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
The treatment of this touchy material is impressive, neither gratuitous nor mincing, but this 1999 satirical comedy doesn't really go anywhere.
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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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Ted Anthony, Associated Press
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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Jay Carr, Boston Globe
You've got to laugh at Witherspoon's tightly wound Little Miss Perfect, rising at dawn to do her hair and encase herself in a preppy look before baking cupcakes to pass out at school as vote-getters in her campaign for student council president.
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Derek Elley, Variety
A dark, insidiously funny satire on the self-involved ways otherwise rational people can allow narrow personal agendas to lead them astray to the point of self-destruction.
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Cast
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Matthew Broderickas Jim McAllister -
Reese Witherspoonas Tracy Flick -
Chris Kleinas Paul Metzler
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Jessica Campbellas Tammy Metzler -
Mark Harelikas Dave Novotny -
Phil Reevesas Walt Hendricks
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