Frontrunners
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  • Summary: Frontrunners is a political documentary that follows the student council presidential campaign at one of the country’s most prestigious public high schools: Stuyvesant High School in New York City. An entertaining and symbolic campaign film, put forth in classic verite style, we follow fouour charming and idiosyncratic candidates as they navigate an electoral process that is said to be one of the most competitive at the high school level. These teenagers candidates face the same issues as candidates of any age, such as picking the “right” running mate, shaking as many hands as possible, preparing for televised debates, impressing the pundits and journalistic community, addressing sensitive race-related issues, and mobilizing an apathetic voter base. (Oscilloscope Laboratories)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Reyhan Harmanci
    100
    Cconsistently entertaining.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    80
    Makes for a thoroughly captivating film.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    The only thing missing is the mud that the big boys love to sling. But the Stuyvesant candidates are kids - give them a few years.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Frontrunners is a lot rougher than Nanette Burstein's recent, similar documentary, "American Teen," and its comparable lack of gloss is both an asset and a flaw.

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