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Election

Forum of Independents - Competition 2005 / Election / USA 1999

Tracy Flick is Carrer High School’s smartest student. School elections are coming up. Who will win? A wicked social satire on America, masquerading as a teen comedy.

Election Election

Synopsis

Tracy Flick is the smartest student in Carver High. Her teacher Mr. McAllister is the most involved teacher at Carver High. School elections are coming up and Tracy Flick is the only one running. After seeing Tracy always winning and doing everything right, Mr. McAllister decides that it is about time to act... He talks another student, Paul, into running against Tracy, who is mortified that Paul is even trying to compete. What’s more, another candidate appears: Tammy, Paul ’s lesbian sister... Who will win the election this year? A wicked social satire on America, masquerading as a teen comedy. “Because films are expensive, it’s like under communism. At a certain point you have to become a party member! And then you try to smuggle your ideas. You can make a good movie under any system. It’s the movies that are just not very intelligent these days.”  (Alexander Payne)

About the film

103 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Alexander Payne / Screenplay Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor / Dir. of Photography James Glennon, A.S.C. / Music Rolfe Kent / Editor Kevin Tent / Producer Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, David Gale, Keith Samples / Production MTV Films, koprodukce/co-production Bona Fide Productions / Cast Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Campbell, Chris Klein, Phil Reeves, Molly Hagan, Delaney Driscoll, Mark Harelik, Colleen Camp, Frankie Ingrassia, Joel Parks, Matt Malloy, Holmes Osborne, Jeanine Jackson, Loren Nelson / Contact UIP, MTV Films

About the director

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne (1961, Omaha, Nebraska) studied Spanish History and Literature at Stanford University and later took a film course at UCLA. He debuted as director in 1991 with the medium-length film The Passion of Martin, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. His first full-length film, Citizen Ruth (1996), was presented at the Montreal IFF, where Laura Dern, the film’s star, was awarded Best Actress. Payne’s next film, Election (1998) won numerous prizes for the screenplay and an Oscar nomination for Best Adaptation. In 2002, his film About Schmidt received Golden Globe awards for Best Direction and Best Screenplay and was nominated for an Oscar. Payne’s latest film, Sideways, was given an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Films: The Passion of Martin (1992, short), Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004).

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UIP
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United States of America
Phone: +1 323 956 8005
Fax: +1 323 862 1386
E-mail: [email protected]

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