President Obama’s Favorite Political Film Is Reese Witherspoon’s Election
The 1999 film Election stars Reese Witherspoon as high school student Tracy Flick. She’s an overachiever whose number-one goal is to become class president — and she’ll stop at nothing to get her wish. A teacher doesn’t feel she deserves to win, so he urges a popular football player to run against Tracy. That’s when Tracy does everything she can for the job. The movie satirizes both politics and high school drama. While the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, it bombed at the box office. Interestingly, President Barack Obama once told the director it’s his favorite political film.
