Yet almost 20 years on, Election has now taken a really funny, really scary extra dimension of humor, what with 2016’s electoral process coming extremely close to the clusterfuck that’s seen in Reese Witherspoon’s fight against the establishment, as well as her contemporaries.
Watch this gem of a film to laugh, then maybe cry a little bit thanks to reality not being nearly as funny.
In 1999, the story of an election between a driven woman, a popular man “not ready for prime time,” and a protest candidate that looks to spoil the campaigns of both was merely fodder for really funny independent comedies.