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Synopsis: Election is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film directed and written by Alexander Payne and adapted by him and Jim Taylor from Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel of the same title. The plot revolves around a high school election and satirizes both suburban high school life and politics. The film stars Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a popular high school social studies teacher in suburban Omaha, Nebraska, and Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, around the time of the school's student body election. When Tracy qualifies to run for class president, McAllister believes she does not deserve the title and tries his best to stop her from winning.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 33 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
1999
103 min
Website
1,687 Views


TRACY (VO CONT'D)

Some people say I'm an overachiever,

but I think they're just jealous.

A page number turns BOLD, and the other numbers drop away

Suddenly we are on that page, and we PAN to a headline: "Spanish Club

says Oh La!"

PAN to the group shot and ZOOM in on Tracy smiling in a big SOMBRERO.

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

My Mom always tells me I'm different --

you know, special. And if you look at

all the things I've accomplished so far,

I think you'd have to agree.

We see Tracy on other pages too: "Yearbook Staff goes for it!" "Junior

Achievers put on the dog!" "Student Council meets the challenge;"

Oklahoma's a hit!

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

Here I am in Oklahoma.

The STILL of Tracy in Oklahoma suddenly COMES TO LIFE.

INT. MILLARD HIGH AUDITORIUMNIGHT

On stage, Tracy wears a cowgirl outfit and hams it up with exaggerated

gestures.

TRACY:

(off-key)

I'm just a girl who can't say no...

TV INSERT/INT. CAFETERIADAY

It's the closed-circuit school NEWS BROADCAST. Tracy is delivering a

stand-up report from the crowded cafeteria. Her dress and makeup are

an obvious if lame emulation of a professional newswoman.

TRACY (VO)

And here I am on KMHS, our student-run

TV station.

TRACY (ON TV)

..that's why Principal Hendricks made

the controversial announcement that the

littering must stop. Tracy Flick

reporting.

INT. STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING ROOM -- AFTERNOON

A Student Council meeting is underway led by the president, LARRY

FOUCH. A girl, ASHLEY, is speaking. JIM observes from the side.

TRACY (VO)

But it was in SGA, the Student

Government Association, where I made my

biggest mark. I never missed a meeting,

and I volunteered for every committee as

long as I could lead it.

Before Ashley can finish, Tracy STANDS UP

TRACY:

I agree with Ashley. We should rent

the barrels at least a day beforehand.

What happened last time was a travesty,

I mean, we were --

LARRY FOUCH:

(trying to quiet

her)

Yeah, no, I know, Tracy. That's why

we're -- Look, can we just take a vote

on this?

INT. JIM'S CLASSROOMDAY

BACK TO TRACY still frozen mid-sentence, waiting to finish her answer.

JIM (VO)

Now at the end of her junior year,

Tracy was poised to win the presidency

of the student body. And so far she was

running unopposed.

TRACY COMES BACK TO LIFE

TRACY:

...the rules of conduct determined by a

culture at a...

SHE FREEZES AGAIN

JIM (VO)

Oh. There's one more thing about Tracy

I think you should know.

INT. MILLARD STAFF-ROOM -- DAY

CLOSE ON DAVE NOVOTNY, another teacher in his mid-thirties

DAVE:

Her p*ssy gets so wet you can't believe

it.

WIDE -

Dave is leaning across his desk to speak with JIM at an adjacent work

area. They eat sack lunches.

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Jim Taylor

Jim Taylor (born 1963 in Seattle, Washington) is an American producer and screenwriter who has often collaborated on projects with Alexander Payne. The two are business partners in the Santa Monica based Ad Hominem Enterprises, and are credited as co-writers of six films released between 1996 and 2007: Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), Jurassic Park III (2001, with Peter Buchman), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007, with Barry Fanaro and Lew Gallo). His credits as a producer include films such as Cedar Rapids and The Descendants. more…

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