Generation Ex: Some Get A Decade; We Get A Moment
Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, 7 July 1999
THIS TIME IT'S personal. High school student Reese Witherspoon leaves teacher Matthew Broderick cursing his so-called life in Election. No shocker; couldn't be a teen film if the kids didn't have all the options and the adults weren't a pitiful mass of stifled redundancy.
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