Author: Alexander Payne

Brand: The Criterion Collection

Features:

• Shrink-wrapped

Format: Collector's Edition

PartNumber: election-1

Release Date: 12-12-2017

Details: Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control. In Alexander Payne's satire ELECTION, the teacher becomes unhealthily obsessed with cutting his student down to size, covertly backing a spoiler candidate to stop her from steamrolling to victory, and putting in motion a series of dirty tricks and reckless promises with uncanny real-world political parallels. Adapting a then-unpublished novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne grounds the absurdity of his central dynamic in the recognizable the setting is his hometown of Omaha, and the accomplished cast is rounded out with nonprofessionals and distills his closely observed take on deeply flawed humanity to its bitter but stealthily sympathetic essence.brbrDIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESbr- New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised and approved by cowriter-director Alexander Payne, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack br- Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Paynebr- New interview with actor Reese Witherspoonbr- THE PASSION OF MARTIN, Payne's 1990 UCLA thesis film, with a new introduction by the directorbr- TRUINSIDE: ELECTION, a 2016 documentary featuring on-set footage and interviews with cast and crewbr- Omaha local-news report on the film's productionbr- Trailer br- PLUS: An essay by critic Dana Stevens

UPC: 715515207218

EAN: 0715515207218

Model: election-1

Languages: English

Binding: blu_ray