![]() ![]() The hotel that Tracy and the politician can be seen leaving is the Hay-Adams Hotel, located at 800 16th Street NW at H Street NW. He pauses before throwing a cup full of Pepsi at the back of the car. He stops in his tracks as he watches them disappear into a limo. There he saw Tracy with a Nebraska politician, appearing to be working for him. He moved to New York to work as a museum guide and went to Washington D.C. Jim: “You might ask if I ever say Tracy Flick and I did, just once” Jim moves to New York City for a new life, and Tracy continues her trajectory toward the White House.įollowing all the chaos of the film, with Jim being exiled to New York and out of the teaching profession altogether, he reveals that he did see Tracy again. Shortly after, the missing votes are found and Jim is fired and kicked out of his house.Īgain, despite Tracy’s scheming, manipulation and threats, she still came out unscathed. After that, he counts the ballots and sees that Tracy has won by one vote so he gets rid of two of the votes. ![]() Like everything in Jim’s life, it doesn’t end well with his wife finding out. On the other side, Jim starts up an affair with Dave’s ex-wife Linda (Delaney Driscoll). Suddenly, this is not the easy campaign that Tracy had envisioned. Soon after, Paul's anarchic sister Tammy (Jessica Campbell) also decides to run. That is until Jim convinced a jock named Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) to run against her. Since she was going to be running unopposed, Tracy was a shoo in for president. This irks Jim who was Dave’s best friend. Even after she has an affair with a teacher, Dave (Mark Harelik), who loses his job and wife, Tracy suffers no consequences. She has bigger dreams of being the President of the United States of America at some point, but this is a crucial first step on her journey to get there one day. ![]() Tracy’s dream is to be school class president. In Election, the lead character, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) takes that trope to a whole new level, driving teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) crazy in the process. We all know that girl from high school that was just a little bit too intense, too serious and intent on her goals. Flick fans and newcomers alike will love this compulsively readable novel chronicling the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time.Anywhere America/Small town About Election In classic Perrotta style, Tracy Flick Can’t Win is a sharp, darkly comic page-turner, and a pitch-perfect reflection on our current moment. Is she really a shoo-in for the Principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves? Her male colleagues’ determination to honor Vito Falcone-a star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL-triggers bad memories for Tracy, and leads her to troubling reflections about the trajectory of her own life and the forces that have left her feeling thwarted and disappointed, unable to fulfill her true potential.Īs she broods on the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be.Īmong her many other responsibilities, Tracy is enlisted to serve on the Selection Committee for the brand-new Green Meadow High School Hall of Fame. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.Įnergized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life-a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice. Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta’s Election -and Reese Witherspoon’s character from the classic movie adaptation-is determined to take high school politics by storm. ![]()
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