Election
Filmfest 2015
USA 1999
Original version
(Original: English)
Director: Alexander Payne
American satire rarely comes more winning than ELECTION, an exuberantly caustic comedy that shows the symbiotic relationship between political go-get-'em-ism and moral backsliding. That's hardly a new theme, but the director, Alexander Payne, has a Preston Sturges-like gift for going against the grain of his own cynicism, so that the movie fairly drips with irony without ever losing its raffish energy or its sense of wonder. It feels miraculously fresh.
David Edelstein, slate.com, 25 Apirl 1999
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik
Credits
Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Original Material: Tom Perrotta
Director of Photography: James Glennon
Film Editor: Kevin Tent
Composer: Rolfe Kent
Production Designer: Jane Ann Stewart
Costume Design: Wendy Chuck
Sound: Eric Flickinger, Drew Webster
Producer: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, David Gale, Keith Samples
Production Company: Bona Fide Productions, MTV Films
Co-Producer: Jim Burke, Jacobus Rose
Distributor: Paramount Pictures Germany GmbH
Director: Alexander Payne
