Excellent dark comedy starring Matthew Broderick about a high school student government election. Brutally painful about the pathetic lives of teachers, the illusions of overachievers and jocks alike, and the stupidities of men generally. About a young overachieving woman, a real pain in the butt, who decides to become president of the student body. Her plan is undermined by a social studies/history teacher (why are they always history teachers?), MB, who encourages another student to run against her. Subplot of his boring life and marriage, his clumsy attempt to stage an affair with his wife’s best friend, plays beautifully. Very funny, very nasty. By the same guy who did “Citizen Ruth”. Very good movie. Broderick, who can’t underplay anything on screen, is actually fun to watch!. I haven’t liked him in years. See this one!