Classic Movies: ELECTION (1999) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school 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 Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast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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Director: Alexander Payne

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Colleen Camp

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 103 min

Rating: R for strong sexuality, sex-related dialogue and language, and a scene of drug use

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: December 12, 2017

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Encoding Format: 16:9

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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Audio commentary from 2008 featuring Payne
New interview with Payne
New interview with actor Reese Witherspoon
The Passion of Martin, Payne’s 1991 UCLA senior thesis film
TruInside: “Election,” a 2016 documentary featuring on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew
Omaha local-news reports on the film’s production More!
PLUS: An essay by critic Dana Stevens