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Usa dream team 2. Election 1999 film wikipedia. Enter city state or zip code go. Election is a 1999 american black comedy film directed by alexander payne from a screenplay by payne and jim taylor based on tom perrottas 1998 novel of the same namethe plot revolves around a student body election and satirizes politics and high school life.

Directed by alexander payne. With matthew broderick reese witherspoon chris klein jessica campbell. Still the same basic problem which is that im much more interested in the story of an ineffectual teacher who decides to sabotage an annoying go getter than i am in the story of that mans disastrous extramarital affair or his disfiguring encounter with a bee or his predilection for high school themed porn.

Find movie and film cast and crew information for election 1999 alexander payne on allmovie. Looking for movie tickets. But school civics teacher jim mcallister has a different plan.

A high school teachers personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president. Tracy is embodied by reese witherspoon an actress ive admired since she had her first kiss in the man in the moon 1991 and who moved up to adult roles in freeway 1997 a harrowing retelling of little red riding hood with kiefer sutherland as the wolf. Partly to establish a more democratic election and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward tracy jim talks popular varsity football player paul metzler to run for president as well.

The film stars matthew broderick as jim mcallister a popular high school social studies teacher and reese witherspoon as tracy. She was a virginal headmasters daughter in cruel intentions which opened last month but she hits her full stride in election. Tracy flick is running unopposed for this years high school student election.

During the next days election jim oversees the tally of the ballots despite being sleep deprived and disfigured from the bee stingafter the ballots are counted tracy wins by a single votecast by paul who votes for her.