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7.2
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7.5

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Kasper Løvborg
rated 9

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...

4 years ago
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Michael Thomsen
rated 9

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

3 years ago
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erwin
rated 7

Obama's favorit film om politik!

2 months ago

Cast & Crew

Alexander Payne
Director
Colleen Camp
As Judith R. Flick
Reese Witherspoon
As Tracy Enid Flick
Matthew Broderick
As Jim McAllister
Matt Malloy
As Vice-Principal Ron Bell
Molly Hagan
As Diane McAllister
Holmes Osborne
As Dick Metzler
Chris Klein
As Paul Metzler

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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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Election was released in theaters on May 7, 1999.