EPISODE #15: ELECTION
Corruption? Scandal? A rigged election? In episode #15 we discuss director Alexander Payne's high school political dramedy, Election (starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon).
SHOWNOTES
- Election - Criterion
- Alexander Payne - Director
- Citizen Ruth (1996) Starring Laura Dern
- About Schmidt (2002)
- Sideways (2004)
- Paris, je t’aime (2006)
- The Descendants (2011)
- Nebraska (2013)
- Matthew Broderick (as Jim McAllister)
- Also starred in Godzilla (1998) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- Reese Witherspoon (as Tracy Flick)
- Chris Klein (as Paul Metzler)
- Jessica Campbell (as Tammy Metzler)
- Mark Harelik (as Dave Novotny)
- Phil Reeves (as Principal Walt Hendricks)
- Delaney Driscoll (as Linda Novotny) - also played Ruth’s sister in Citizen Ruth
- Holmes Osborne (as Dick Metzler) - also played Donnie’s Dad in Donnie Darko
- Movie Trivia
- Thora Birch, who starred in Ghost World (2001) was originally cast to play Tammy
- Election was filmed in Papillion LaVista High School in Papillion, Nebraska
- Josie and The Pussycats (2001) was also a Universal Pictures/MTV Films production
- Unlike “Stadium High School” in 10 Things I Hate About You, the high school in Election seems pretty realistic
- Tom Perrotta (who originally wrote Election) also wrote the novel The Leftovers which was later turned into an HBO series starring:
- Justin Theroux
- Liv Tyler
- Janel Moloney
- Scott Glenn (not to be confused with David Carradine)
- And written by Damon Lindelof
- Election - Alternate Ending
- Three Times A Lady - The Commodores
- Navajo Joe - Ennio Morricone (from the 1966 movie Navajo Joe starring Burt Reynolds)
- Mystery Men (starring Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo)
- Paul falls asleep reading The Celestine Prophecy (by James Redfield)
