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Budget. $8.5–25 million [1][2] Box office. $17.2 million [1] Election is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Alexander Payne from a screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on Tom Perrotta 's 1998 novel of the same name. The plot revolves around a student body election and satirizes politics and high school life.
Tracy is an ambitious high school junior, preparing for an easy election to the office of student body president after three years of extracurricular toil. Her assumption that she will be unopposed is dashed when two challengers enter the race: friendly and popular athlete Paul Metzler, sidelined from the football team by a skiing accident, and Paul's younger adopted sister Tammy, a moody ...
Election (novel) Election. (novel) Election is a 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta about a high school history teacher who attempts to sabotage a manipulative, ambitious girl's campaign to become school president. The novel was adapted into a film of the same title. Shooting occurred in 1997, prior to publication, but the film was not released until 1999.
How Political, Election Films Affect Audience Perception. Newsy looked at 40 movies about U.S. elections, from films about real political figures to fictional presidential, mayoral and even ...
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Election (Chinese: 黑社會; literal title: Black Society, a common Cantonese reference to the triads), is a 2005 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To.Featuring a large ensemble cast, the film stars Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka-fai as two gang leaders engaged in a power struggle to become the new leader of a Hong Kong triad.
Categories: American political films. Films about presidential elections. Films set in 2000. 2000 United States presidential election in popular culture.
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile.