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Election is easily my favorite comedy and one of my top ten favorite movies of all time. It brings out the best in most of it's cast and the stylistic quality of the film is both outrageous and subtle at the same time.
Films Ranked | 50 Greatest Election Movies of All Times. Few things are more American than elections and Hollywood. This list explores what happens when the campaign trail wanders through Tinsel Town. https://www.filmsranked.com/greatest-election-movies-ever/.
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Election received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 92%, based on 114 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10. The critical consensus reads, "Election successfully combines dark humor and intelligent writing in this very witty and enjoyable film."
Aug 22, 2012 · In honor of this summer's political conventions, we're taking a look at the best on-screen candidacies. (No actual voting was involved.)
- Bulworth
- In The Line of Fire
- Election
- No
- The Ides of March
- Wag The Dog
- Primary Colors
- Dave
- The Candidate
- Game Change
Bored with his life and disgusted by a populace that has moved on from his 1960s and ‘70s socialist views, Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) decides that the only way to deal with his existential quagmire – and to dodge his losing re-election campaign – is to commit suicide. But since his newly signed $10 million life insurance policy – negotiat...
Less a film about elections and more a political thriller that just so happens to use campaigning as a backdrop for its involved game of cat-and-mouse, In the Line of Fireactually employs another age-old political trope: the would-be assassination of the president of the United States of America, and the dogged, emotionally damaged Secret Service a...
While not a film about a presidential, gubernatorial, or senatorial election, Electionfollows a race that can be just as fraught with deception, emotion, and revenge: a high school student body election. Overeager, insufferable, and sanctimonious, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is a junior who has decided to jump in the race for student council pr...
The only Spanish-language film on this list, No follows the 1988 national referendum in Chile that would eventually see a new constitution written and the removal from power of General Augusto Pinochet, the country’s military dictator for the previous 15 years. With the central question of the election being whether Pinochet should be given another...
Like a number of the other entries on this list, The Ides of March is very much a product of its times; unlike most of the other entries on this list, this film is from the current decade, which has seen a president being picked in the primaries not by the sheer force of personal charisma or the greater wielding of the mudslinging machine, but by a...
An unabashedly cynical look at politics, Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dogdraws a rather unflattering comparison between Washington, DC and Hollywood, with their main connective tissue being the fundamental desire to create alternate realities in order to distract and entertain a largely uneducated populace. What’s interesting to note is how malleable t...
Stop me when this sounds familiar. A warm, affable, I-feel-your-pain Southern governor (played by John Travolta) is staging a major comeback in the Democratic primary, but his near-constant womanizing keeps interfering with his campaign’s designs of world dominance and creates a seemingly never-ending series of scandals. If that sounds suspiciously...
What was it about the ‘90s and the wholesale depiction of government as deceitful, manipulative, and duplicitous? (“Trust no one,” The X-Filesgravely intones.) In yet another riff on President Bill Clinton and his wandering eye, a well-meaning nobody from DC named Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) is recruited by President Bill Mitchell (also Kline) to do h...
Arguably the most cynical – and also the most sophisticated – film on this list, The Candidatetells the story of how the desire to win at any cost trumps such silly trifles as social issues or moral qualms. With the Democrats facing an unwinnable election, a political election specialist by the name of Marvin Lucas (Peter Boyle) roots out the only ...
An HBO Films original, Game Changeis based on a 2010 book by political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann that attempts to reconstruct Senator John McCain’s campaign in the infamous 2008 election, focusing specifically on how he came to pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. While not ever veering into either lampooning or ...
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Apr 30, 1999 · Tracy is smarter than that, and would never occupy such an exposed position. She’s the subject of Alexander Payne‘s “Election,” a wicked satire about an election for student government president, a post Tracy wants to win to go along with her collection of every other prize in school. What sets this film aside from all the other recent ...
