GALL Movie Review - Election

Since having Magoo we don't get out much on Friday and Saturday nights. We are therefore at the mercy of whatever the television stations can dredge up from the depths of their viewing library. It is common knowledge that weekend television is pretty much crap, and I like to think of it as the TV people's way of punishing us for being at home at these times - I call it "GALL", or "Get A Life, Loser" television. Better Homes and Gardens and the near monthly repetition of Mean Girls and True Lies are good examples of GALL television.

But occasionally someone, somewhere takes pity on us GALL viewers and puts a real pearler on, as they did on Friday night.

If you haven't seen "Election", with Reece Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, then get thee to the nearest Video Ezy and check it out. It's a black comedy based around a high school presidential election, with the painfully annoying Reece Witherspoon running for class president, and Matthew Broderick's initially squeaky clean teacher watching his life disintegrate around him. It's got adultery, lesbianism, backstabbing and bee stings and is bloody funny.

But I would like to point out that I in fact recorded this one as I was out - yes OUT for the first time in a looong time (woot woot!).. Thanks for a great night Bee :)