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 Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable-the setting is his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, and the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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Election
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The Jody Grind
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Horace Silver:
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker
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Foxey Lady
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Born to Be with You
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Three Times a Lady
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Rue Paul
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Navajo Joe Main Title
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Right in the Back of Your Mind
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This Road I'm Traveling
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Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
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La Piscine Couverte
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Only God Knows
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Get Set
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Marcello McAllister
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With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
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El Tostado
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AI Grandota
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Jennifer Juniper
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Drown in Small Cowgirl Boots
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Rising Sign
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Leisure Suit Riot
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If You'll Be the Teacher
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God Whispers to Constantine
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This Road I'm Traveling
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Neil Halstead:
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With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
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Mack Gordon:
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It's a Beautiful Day
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Meghan Ivey:
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If You'll Be the Teacher
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Ned Miller:
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