Director Alexander (CITIZEN RUTH) Payne's second film, based on the novel by Tom Perotta, takes the scandal and mudslinging associated with presidential elections and transposes them to a high school election for student council president in Nebraska- with impossibly sharp, satirical results. Matthew Broderick, in a reversal of FERRIS BUELLER, plays Jim McAllister, a teacher who will stop at nothing to prevent perfect Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), who is running unopposed, from winning the election. Jim, who bears a personal grudge against Tracy, goads a popular but dim football player (Chris Klein) into running against her. This spurs on a series of strange events (both madcap and surprisingly sexual), which add up to an uncommonly funny high school film for adults. Performances are great all-around, and Payne uses shifting narration and a series of freeze frames to give the film a rich and layered feel.

DVD Features:

SENSORMATIC
Region 1 Encoding
Keep Case
Widescreen Anamorphic
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Audio Commentary by director Alexander Payne

Reese Witherspoon: American Actress, CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999)
Matthew Broderick: American Actor, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)
Chris Klein: Actor
Jessica Campbell: Actress
Mark Harelik: ACTOR/VOICES\SWAN PRINCES
Phil Reeves: Actor

Alexander Payne: Director/Screenwriter

Albert Berger: PRODUCER
David Gale: Producer, VARSITY BLUES (1999)
Keith Samples: Executive Producer
Ron Yerxa: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Rolfe Kent: Producer/Composer, MERCY (1996)

Alexander Payne: Director/Screenwriter
Jim Taylor: SCREENWRITER/2U DIRECTOR

Kevin Tent: Editor/Director

"...[An] insidiously funny satire....Smart, sophisticated..."
"...ELECTION is a wonderfully acidulous satire....[The film] turns the usual conventions of the high-school comedy on their head..."
"...Briskly paced, painfully funny and pretty much unmissable..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
"...Mr. Broderick knows how to make a fool of himself in very funny ways, and he gives a sneakily good performance here..."
"...Devilishly subversive....Scathing, smart and serious-funny....When it comes to eloquently telling it like it is, ELECTION puts the nation's political pundits to shame..."
"...Sharp and merciless....A cheerful nightmare that knows just where it wants to go and uses precisely calibrated comic effects to get there..."
"...A wicked satire....[Witherspoon] hits her full stride in ELECTION..."