ELECTION

This satirical comedy takes an uncommon look at ambition, morality, desire, love and lies: Jim McAllister (Mathew Broderick) is a popular teacher and student government adviser who loves making a difference in his students' lives. Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the school's consummate overachiever, an alarmingly ambitious go-getter, who is running for student council president. Jim decides to recruit his own president, Paul - a sidelined football hero whose enormous popularity threatens Tracy's chances. As campaign fever sets in, the lines between right and wrong grow increasingly blurry and Jim's life spins out of control. Received an Academy Nomination for Screenplay-Adaptation (1999).