Country: USA
Year: 1998
Duration: 103'


Jim McAllister teaches at the George Washington Carver High, and is hugely popular with his students. Student elections are coming up and the favourite to win is the attractive and ambitious Tracy Flick - who is prepared to do anything to ensure victory. Jim decides to put up a talented American footballer, Paul Metzler, to run against her. Soon, Tammy, Paul's sister, also opts to run for election. Life at the school is completely dominated by this subject.

Biography

film director

Alexander Payne

(Omaha, NE, USA, 1961) graduated in film studies from UCLA and debuted with Citizen Ruth, which was presented at the Sundance Festival. In 1999, he directed Election, which received numerous awards, including best screenplay from the Writers’ Guild of America and the New York Film Critics Circle. Thanks to his next feature film, About Schmidt (2002), Jack Nicholson received the Oscar for best actor; the film also competed at Cannes and inaugurated the New York Film Festival. Two years later, Sideways won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, and was also nominated for best film and best director. In 2011, he co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and directed The Descendants, starring George Clooney and selected at TFF. The following year, he helmed the black-and-white road movie Nebraska, featuring Bruce Dern, which won the Best Actor award at Cannes. In 2017, he directed Downsizing, starring Matt Damon, which was selected in competion at Venice. In 2023, he directed The Holdovers, presented at Telluride and starring Paul Giamatti.

FILMOGRAFIA

Carmen (cm, 1985), The Passion of Martin (mm, 1991), Citizen Ruth (La storia di Ruth - Donna americana, 1996), Election (id., 1999), About Schmidt (A proposito di Schmidt, 2002), Sideways (Sideways - In viaggio con Jack, 2004), Paris, je t’aime (ep. 14e arrondissement, cm, 2006), Hung (ep. pilota/Pilot, cm, tv, 2009), The Descendants (id., 2011), The Descendants (Paradiso amaro, 2011), Nebraska (id., 2013), Downsizing (Downsizing – Vivere alla grande, 2017), The Holdovers (The Holdovers – Lezioni di vita, 2023).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Alexander Payne.
Plot: dal romanzo di John Perrotta.
Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor.
Director of photography: James Glennon.
Costume designer: Wendy Chuck.
Art director: Jane Ann Stewart.
Music: Rolfe Kent.
Editor: Kevin Tent.
Cast and characters: Matthew Broderick (Jim McAllister), Reese Witherspoon (Tracy Flick), Jessica Campbell (Tammy Metzler), Chris Klein (Paul Metzler), Phil Reeves (Walt Hendricks), Mark Harelik (Dave Novotny).
Produttori: David Gale, Keith Samples, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa.
Production company: Paramount, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, 90038 CA, USA,. Tel. +1-323-9565000.
Co-production: Bona Fide Productions.
Foreign sales agent: United International Pictures, Uk. Italian distribution: United International Pictures, via Bissolati 20, 00177 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-47894236, fax +39-06-42011997.
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