Election Movie (1999): Where to watch and stream online

Election

1999, Movie, 1h 43min

Perky, overachieving high schooler Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of social-studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for student-body president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control. In Alexander Payne’s satire ELECTION, the teacher becomes unhealthily obsessed with cutting his student down to size, covertly backing a spoiler candidate to stop her from steamrolling to victory, and putting in motion a series of dirty tricks and reckless promises with uncanny real-world political parallels. Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable—the setting is his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, and the accomplished cast is rounded out with nonprofessionals—and distills his closely observed take on deeply flawed humanity to its bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.

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Reviews

Critic Kim Newman

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Like Rushmore, it's brilliantly-scripted and played, with a real sense of offbeat character.

Read full review at Empire

Kasper Løvborg

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Holy cow, vote for Payne! This, his best effort, is a wickedly funny and bafflingly dark satire which plays with genre and style with remarkable virtuosity and ingenuity. There are frequent, audacious shifts between multiple (and very different) v...

5 years ago

Critic Marc Savlov

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...it's Witherspoon's film all the way. She pouts, she trembles, she explodes into wild, hilarious, painful tantrums when her best-laid plans scurry southward.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Michael Thomsen

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En af de bedste amerikanske 'indie' komedier - high school livet som mikrokosmos for det amerikanske demokrati. Sjov!

4 years ago

erwin

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Obama's favorit film om politik!

1 year ago

Frequently asked questions

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Election is a 1999 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The movie follows the story of Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), a straight-A go-getter who is determined to become the president of Carver High School's student body.. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. The movie explores themes of ambition politics, and the complexities of high school life.

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You can stream Election on: Amazon Store

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