Fan CastingElection (1979)
by Tom Perrotta
Story added by rwhite18 on August 9, 2023
Perky, overachieving high schooler Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of social-studies teacher Jim McAllister 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 ...
#darkcomedy
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#1970s
#romance
#satire
#drama
#indiefilm
#politicalcinema