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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   35,212 votes
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Director:
Alexander Payne
Writers (WGA):
Tom Perrotta (novel)
Alexander Payne (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
7 May 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Reading, Writing, Revenge.
Plot:
A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 16 wins & 18 nominations more
User Comments:
An outstanding satire more (414 total)

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexuality, sex-related dialogue and language, and a scene of drug use.
Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
Apples are featured prominently in the movie, usually before trouble arrives for a character. They are used as an analogy to entice Paul Metzler to enter the election, an apple tree is shown before Mr. McAllister is stung by a bee, apples hang above the doorway to Mr. McAllister's living room right before he discovers his wife knows he cheated on her, and Mr. McAllister wins the Apple Teacher of The Year Award at the beginning of the movie. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Tracy, in her voiceover after the election, refers to being in the "top seventh percentile"; percentiles do not work that way. more
Quotes:
Tracy Flick: [narrating] None of this would have happened if Mr. McAllister hadn't meddled the way he did. He should have just accepted things as they are instead of trying to interfere with destiny. You see, you can't interfere with destiny. That's why it's destiny. And if you try to interfere, the same thing's going to happen anyway, and you'll just suffer. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Best! Movies! Ever!: Hot for Teacher (#1.21)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Marcello McAllister more

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46 out of 77 people found the following comment useful.
An outstanding satire, 1 February 2005
10/10
Author: androoren from United Kingdom

Ethics and Morals

I'm not generally a fan of excessive voice-over and quirky, stylised direction but here it's all done so well. It seems to suffer from that classic "this film didn't make sense" style of review, but it clearly does. A wonderful script with a great mix of slapstick and intelligent comedy and winning performances from Broderick, a brilliant Reese Witherspoon and the normally hapless Chris Klein.

And, yes, it has sex in it. It's hardly titillating and is always completely relevant to the plot. But if you simply hate seeing sex (not nudity, of which there is very little) in films then you won't like it.

It beats Rushmore to the 'best film set in a high school' award.

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