Election

“Reading. Writing. Revenge.”

At a suburban Nebraska high school, the student council race is the biggest thing on the calendar. Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) teaches civics there and cannot stand Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), the relentless overachiever running unopposed. Alexander Payne watches the two of them from opposite ends of a classroom, a teacher and a student who each want the other to lose.