![]() Further, Diane divorces Jim, taking the house and most of their joint assets. Jim is forced to resign, and the election rigging makes headlines. The ballots are later discovered, and Tracy becomes president. Seeing Tracy peering in on the vote count and preemptively celebrating, he spitefully disposes of two of Tracy's ballots, throwing the election to Paul. ![]() Jim oversees the tally of the ballots, which finds Tracy winning by a single vote. Knowing Linda has exposed their encounter, he spends the night in his car. He returns home to find Linda and his wife Diane talking. When Jim drives to Linda's house to find her, he is stung by a bee on his eyelid. Linda asks Jim to rent a motel room for an afterschool rendezvous, but she fails to show. ![]() The day before the election, Jim has a tryst with Linda, Dave's ex-wife. Tammy is expelled and her name struck from the ballot. She is saved by Tammy, who appears with the torn posters and claims responsibility. Tracy feigns innocence and trades threats with Jim. The next day, Jim confronts Tracy with his suspicion that she removed the posters. In a fit of rage, she destroys the other candidates' campaign posters and discards them in a dumpster, unaware that Tammy sees her. She tries to secure it but accidentally rips the poster apart. Late one night, Tracy sees that one of her campaign posters has come unstuck from the wall. She rallies the students to a rowdy standing ovation, but the principal retaliates by suspending her. In her speech at a school assembly, she denounces student government as a sham and vows to dissolve it if she wins. Tammy exacts revenge by running for president herself. Tammy Metzler, Paul's adopted younger sister, is dumped by her girlfriend Lisa, who becomes Paul's girlfriend and campaign manager. It also infuriates Tracy, who expects to run unchallenged, and resents Paul's popularity and privileged upbringing. Paul is sidelined from football with a broken leg and finds his candidacy gives him purpose. While Jim felt Dave needed to suffer consequences, he resents Tracy for emerging unscathed.Īppalled by Tracy's unopposed run for student government president, Jim persuades Paul Metzler, a popular, good-natured, but dimwitted football player, to enter the race. Jim's colleague and best friend Dave lost his job and wife after engaging in a sexual relationship with Tracy. One of his students is Tracy Flick, an overachieving junior. history and civics at Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. The film is narrated by main characters Jim, Tracy, Paul, and Tammy, recounting their involvement in a high school election fraud scandal. The film received an Academy Awards nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe nomination for Witherspoon for Best Actress, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film in 1999. ![]() When Tracy runs for student government president, Jim sabotages her candidacy by backing a rival candidate and tampering with the ballot count.Īlthough not a success at the box office, Election received widespread critical acclaim. The film stars Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a popular high school social studies teacher, and Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, an overachieving student whom he dislikes. The plot revolves around a student body election and satirizes politics and high school life. 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. ![]()
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