Das persönliche Leben eines Gymnasiallehrers wird kompliziert, wenn er während der Schulwahlen mit Schülern arbeitet, insbesondere mit einem zwanghaften Streber, der entschlossen ist, Präsid... Alles lesenDas persönliche Leben eines Gymnasiallehrers wird kompliziert, wenn er während der Schulwahlen mit Schülern arbeitet, insbesondere mit einem zwanghaften Streber, der entschlossen ist, Präsident der Schülerschaft zu werden.Das persönliche Leben eines Gymnasiallehrers wird kompliziert, wenn er während der Schulwahlen mit Schülern arbeitet, insbesondere mit einem zwanghaften Streber, der entschlossen ist, Präsident der Schülerschaft zu werden.
- Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 16 Gewinne & 34 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Adult Video Actor
- (as Brian Tobin)
- Tracy's Friend Eric
- (as David Wenzel)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesChris Klein's debut film. He was a student at Millard West High School in Omaha when he was discovered by director Alexander Payne while looking for a school to use for filming (another one was eventually used). Although other actors auditioned for Paul, Klein stuck in Payne's mind.
- PatzerThe nickname of the mythical Nebraska high school is the Wolverines. However, when the results of the election are announced at the assembly, the name Monarchs clearly appears on the side of the gym floor. This is the nickname of Papillion-La Vista (Nebraska) High School where many of the scenes were shot.
- Zitate
Tammy Metzler: [narrating] It's not like I'm a lesbian or anything. I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've been attracted to happen to be girls.
- Crazy CreditsFilm title logo appears when end credits are finished.
- SoundtracksThe Jody Grind
Written by Horace Silver
Performed by Quintetto X
Courtesy of Instinct Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
Tracy (Reese Witherspoon) is an overachieving senior in suburban George Washington Carver High School (where the student body is all white). What Tracy wants, she gets, using a combination of single-minded hard work, bright smiles as phony as a television infomercial, eager volunteering and a ruthlessness that varies between chirpiness and squinted eyes. As Tracy says, quoting her Mom, "The weak are always trying to sabotage the strong."
Then one of Tracy's teachers, Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides the world needs to be saved from Tracy. He talks one of the school's popular football athlete's to run against Tracy. From now on Jim has his hands full trying to sabotage Tracy's relentless campaign, impregnate his wife, convince himself his next door neighbor, a recent divorcée, is really going to understand him if they can only check into a motel for a couple of hours...and deal with the consequences of everything he set in motion.
Election, written and directed by Alexander Payne, is one of the funniest, darkest satires of human behavior since Jonathan Swift recommended that the poor should simply sell their children to be eaten by the rich. There are a lot of teenagers in this movie, but it's not just another teen-age movie. We're looking at the ludicrous depths to which ambition and good intentions, when mixed with politics, can take us. If that seems ponderous, it's about as ponderous as Tracy Flick's mom writing compulsively to people like Connie Chung and Elizabeth Dole asking for advice. (Never give up on your dreams is the usual reply.)
The script moves from the exaggerated to the outlandish with great style. The actors deliver the goods with deadpan sincerity and self-serving honesty. Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick hits the bull's-eye with unnerving accuracy. She is so sincere in her insincerity, which is, in Tracy Flick's own way, completely sincere, that Witherspoon makes us smile and shudder at the same time. As outstanding as she is, Matthew Broderick is the heart of the movie. Jim McAllister is part lech, part nebbish, but mostly good guy. It's a funny, almost poignant performance. Payne's script and Broderick's acting give us a perfect ending that's just as brittle, cool and amusing as the rest of the movie.
I like Election a lot. I hope as time passes the movie isn't forgotten.
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Offizieller Standort
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- Auch bekannt als
- Elección
- Drehorte
- 5011 Cass Street, Omaha, Nebraska, USA(Jim and Diane's house)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 25.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 14.902.041 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 119.080 $
- 25. Apr. 1999
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 14.902.280 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 43 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.39 : 1