Election

…teacher in the 1999 movie Election opposite Reese Witherspoon’s overachieving student. In the early 2000s Broderick also appeared in You Can Count on Me (2000), The Stepford Wives (2004), and Strangers with Candy (2005).

Payne experienced greater success with Election (1999), which he and Taylor adapted from Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same name. The film sharply satirized political ethics through the prism of a cutthroat campaign for president of a high-school student council, and the witty script earned an Academy Award nomination. Benefiting…

…in Alexander Payne’s black comedy Election. The following year she was cast against type as the girlfriend of a serial killer (played by Christian Bale) in the violent satire American Psycho, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel. Also in 2000 Witherspoon had a memorable turn as the sister…