- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Apr 23, 1999
User Score
8.2
out of 10
Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 43
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Mixed: 0 out of 43
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Negative: 3 out of 43
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Feb 19, 20129This movie is so great and unique! I am not particularly fond of Matthew Broderick, and he is really detestable in this movie, but he plays a douche bag to perfection. Reese Witherspoon is also on point. Seriously, this movie is an unusual treat. I can't really compare it to anything else I have seen.
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Aug 23, 201010Rigged: Routines and Dreams in Alexander Payneâ
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[Anonymous]Dec 5, 20079Great movie. Hilarious. I thought Kevin Kline was surprising good.
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KSApr 26, 200710This movie was great, and really gives a good view of the bigger picture-American elections and middle class society.
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GaborA.Feb 28, 20069One of the best comedies...movies of all time. Hits the nail right on the head over and over.
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MargaretF.Aug 16, 20050This is the most disgusting and vile pathetic excuse for a movie I have seen in a long time; Truly awful-Matthew Broderick is an anxious boring soulless teacher whilst Reece Witherspoon is utterly useless in her part as an conceited ambitious teenager. The hopeless plot and script struggles and dies long before the credits appear.
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JoeyK.Aug 8, 20058This is a great, and very underrated movie. It's very funny, and very smart.
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J.RyanG.May 29, 200510One of the most underrated films of all time, this is the modern standard for showing the interiors of American high schools and how the apathetic following through the motions can reach a fever pitch and make some people go crazy. One of the great movies about institutions of any variety and the people who feel (and may just be) trapped inside.
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ZsuzsaBOct 10, 200410Fantastic movie, which is able to show our real, sad world in a very funny way.
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BrandonE.Sep 4, 20048Very interesting film...caught my attention and kept it the entire film..A+
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JonathanH.Apr 2, 200410Shockingly smart teen movie that takes you to an unexpected place.
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YoonMinC.Sep 29, 20037
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ConstanceM.Jul 7, 20033
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DavidO.Oct 5, 200210Great movie, but I felt that the movie could have just have easily been about the moral backsliding and loss of ethics in the world of student politics and cut out the explicit sexual material. However, the sex was much smarter than in the American Pie movies.
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RyanM.Aug 15, 200110Great in every way, it's an amazing high school movie that brings a new meaning to originality.
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ClaydohAug 1, 200110Very funny.
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BlancoA.Apr 3, 20019What a great edge this movie has. It came out about 6 months before "American Beauty," and it's better in my opinion.
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MichaelC.Feb 3, 20019Anyone who said this movie was "dumb, dumb, dumb" is likely to be dumb dumb dumb themselves. This is a classical dark comedy everyone should see.
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90Election is a bracingly intelligent adult comedy that shrewdly captures adolescence.
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75The screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, sees the lives of these suburban students and teachers through a prism of absurdity that refracts more truth than any straightforward telling.
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100The satire of the season, a hilarious, razor-sharp indictment of the American Dream.