Election (1999 Audience Choice)

Election (1999 Audience Choice)

Author: Awesome Movie Year December 8, 2021 Duration: 1:00:32

The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features our audience choice pick, Alexander Payne’s Election. Directed and co-written by Alexander Payne (adapted from the novel by Tom Perrotta) and starring Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein and Jessica Campbell, Election prevailed over 11 other movies in our audience choice teen movie tournament.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/election-1999), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1999/04/30/election-3/), and Michael Rechtshaffen in The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/election-review-1999-movie-1198002/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next installment, the epilogue to our 1999 season.


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