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Film · 1999 · Black comedy
Election
Directed by Alexander Payne
1999
★ 6.3 editorial score
Reese Witherspoon has never been better used: a high-school student council election becomes a study of ambition and resentment, and Payne refuses to let a single character off the hook.
“"Election" is Alexander Payne's acerbic satire of the American electoral process. From the news that Tracy's Mom solicited tactical advice from Elizabeth Dole and Connie Chung to a photograph of Tracy smiling confidently at the polling place, it joins his earlier (and even more wicked) "Citizen Ruth" in skewering political ethics and behavior, with a lovely ear for hypocritical conversation.”
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