Matthew Broderick plays his usual low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high-school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, Paul (Chris Klein from American Pie), to run against her in the election for student-council president. Director/co-writer Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth) turns this deceptively simple premise into a complex and scathing comedy of ambition, corruption and desire, all at its most naked and petty. Witherspoon flips effortlessly back and forth from adolescent vulnerability to steely-eyed strength; she is becoming a contemporary Carole Lombard. This movie is a must-see!

Hilarious comedy about what happens when you try to cheat democracy.
Not for kids. (via auntbeep)

One of Reese Witherspoon's finer moments, and an all around classic dark comendy. Election would be borderline slapstick if it wasn't so creepy and macabre. For a Type-A recovering grade-school overacheiver like myself, Election is as therapeutic as it is funny. (via johnpolinsky)