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Reese Witherspoon is Tracy Flick, a straight "A" go-getter who's determined to be president of Carver High's student body. But when popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) observes the zealous political locomotive that is Tracy, he decides to derail her obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate (Chris Klein) - with disastrous results! Here's a smart, witty and hilarious jab at high school politics helmed by award-winning director Alexander Payne (Downsizing).

Comedy · 1999 · 1 hr 43 min
Director Alexander Payne

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Reese Witherspoon is Tracy Flick, a straight "A" go-getter who's determined to be president of Carver High's student body. But when popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) observes the zealous political locomotive that is Tracy, he decides to derail her obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate (Chris Klein) - with disastrous results! Here's a smart, witty and hilarious jab at high school politics helmed by award-winning director Alexander Payne (Downsizing).

COMMON SENSE

Dark '90s high school comedy has lots of sex, cursing.

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.9
Reviews 115
Fresh 106
Rotten 9

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Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
1999
Run Time
1 hr 43 min
Rated
R For strong sexuality, sex-related dialogue and language, and a scene of drug use.
Region of Origin
United States
© 1999 Paramount Pictures. Tous Droits Réservées.

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Original Audio
English
Audio
English (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), English (United States)
Subtitles
English (CC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.