Well, this was enormously bouncy and overdue, made very stylishly, e.g. those bedroom tracks that go up and up into an impossibly high ceiling. Rolfe Kent 's Morricone-western pastiche score also adds class, Kevin Tent is the editor who insisted on that very fast succession of cuts at the end.
Love the way nobody's voiceover matches up to their behaviour - good screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor (also Sideways and About Schmidt), based on novel by Tom Perrotta. Also love the girl's election speech - "Don't bother to vote at all!" - and the reaction she gets.
Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein (sympathetic as the dumb jock), Jessica Campbell (gay sister), Phil Reeves (head), Colleen Camp (didn't recognise her as Reese's mom).
Nice twists throughout.
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