PLOT SUMMARY: A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
WHERE TO WATCH: Max
JAIMEE’S NOTES: What a chain reaction of terrible events for Jim! This is the story about a boy named unlucky….lol, Britney Spears song joke. Jim McAllister is a high school government teacher in Omaha, Nebraska and he loves his job. The students at his school have an upcoming student body president election! How fun! Tracy Flick, an overachiever in every way, is running unopposed. Jim and his wife, Diane, become good friends with one of his fellow teachers, Dave, and his wife Linda. Dave’s marriage soon ended when he had an inappropriate relationship with Tracy and thought he was in love with her, icky. Dave eventually got fired and divorced. Jim is annoyed of Tracy’s eagerness and know it all attitude. He also does not want her to win this election because then he has to supervise and spend lots of time with her. To combat this, Jim convinces another student, Paul to also run for student body president., Paul is an athlete who broke his leg and feels like he has no purpose anymore because he can’t play sports. Paul is also not the brightest bulb and very different from Tracy Flick. Tracy is pissed. Paul’s younger sister, Tammy is also a main character in this film. Tammy has a crush on her friend Lisa, but Lisa decides she doesn’t want to “experiment” as she calls it with Tammy anymore and leaves. Lisa goes on to start dating Paul and becomes his campaign manager! This is like a comedy soap opera! Tammy is pissed, so she also decides to run for president. While all of this is going on, Jim also starts helping Linda out with things at her house since her husband has moved out and he develops a little crush. There is a lot of scandal and drama leading up to Election Day and Jim has a couple of the worst days of his life during this time. The election is heated and some shit goes down. A memorable election for sure. A year later, everyone is where they are supposed to be…maybe. But Jim’s disdain for Tracy Flick still haunts him. This movie was funny, a little dark, and very entertaining. Reese Witherspoon plays such a great obnoxious student and Matthew Broderick, I love in anything. Buckle up your automatic seatbelts! (Remember those? I loved seeing one) You’re in for a ride!