Election

Tracey Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student council president election. But school guidance counsellor Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger towards Tracey, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Metzler into running for president as well., Perky Reese Witherspoon is a shoo-in for student president, until bitter teacher Matthew Broderick puts a hitch in her plans. Satirical comedy. Contains strong language. (1999)(103 mins), In this wickedly funny satire, a high-school teacher tries to thwart a ruthless overachiever who’s running for class president by encouraging a dimwitted jock to enter the race. In time, the election also attracts the jock’s sister, who pledges to dismantle the student government., A high-school teacher tries to thwart a ruthless overachiever who’s running for class president by encouraging a dimwitted jock to enter the race. In time, the election also attracts the jock’s sister, who pledges to dismantle the student government., Alexander Payne’s satire stars Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, a high school student determined to become student government president. Equally determined to stop her is teacher Jim McAllister, who has seen behind her WASP façade and knows what she is capable of. He persuades Paul Metzler to stand against her but as Tracy uses every trick in the book as the election grows closer, do Paul and Jim stand any chance of defeating her?, Sharp satire about a high-school teacher who tries to thwart a ruthless overachiever who’s running for class president., In this satiric comedy, Jim McAllister is a popular and well-respected instructor at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska, but lately he’s been unhappy in both his personal and professional life. His anxieties finally come to a head as a result of the school’s student elections., A school teacher gets a dumb football player to run against the ambitious student president elect with hilarious results., Cynical, acerbic comedy about the battle to become student body president, fought between a vindictive teacher and an obnoxious over-achieving student. While the student feels she has earned the title through her many extracurricular activities and strenuous campaigning, the teacher, whose friend’s career was ruined by the same student, believes she must be stopped and persuades a popular football player to stand against her., Raucous high school comedy about Tracy Flick, the smartest girl in Carver High, who happens to be having an affair with one of her teachers. In the running for high school president, her plans look set for success until another teacher, Jim McAllister, decides to scupper them.