Election follows the path of despair for one unfortunate soul who is oblivious to his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction with his life. He masks his own self-loathing in an attack on a teenage girl who overachieves at everything she does. What’s terrific about the film is that it could have been presented with much darker overtones, akin to American Beauty. But it decided to stay....

Max, a famous comedian, is stunned to see the behavior of the parents of the teammates of his son’s baseball team. It stuns him so much he receives creative inspiration to make a film satirizing them. He begins then to interview each parent to learn how they tick, and ultimately to make an attempt to connect their mad antics with their personal lives.   By entering into each....

The cover for the movie and the title suggest a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas type of surrealism. But in actuality this film is incredibly intimate, with the most consistently tight camera work you will see capturing a very strong rendition of the reality of presumably college students or just young kids seeking to expand their horizons by camping at the beach with hopes of intoxicating on....