![]() ![]() McAllister that it is she, not Tracy, who perpetrated the poster sabotage. What Tracy can't hear is that Tammy is falsely confessing to a skeptical Mr. Tracy experiences a moment of sheer panic when she peers in the window only to see Tammy revealing the shredded posters. Tracy is asked to wait outside the room while Tammy speaks to Mr. MacAllister she knows who tore down the posters. At that moment, Tammy knocks on the door and tells Mr. McAllister confronts Tracy about the missing posters and lectures her that "all of our actions can carry serious consequences," Tracy adamantly claims innocence, despite his insistence that all evidence points to her as the chief suspect. Unbeknownst to Tracy, her attempted cover-up is witnessed by Tammy who was meditating near her favorite spot, an electric substation. ![]() She then drives to a local power plant to dispose of the shredded posters in a nearby dumpster. While working on another project after school, Tracy has an uncharacteristic fit of rage and destroys all of Paul's campaign posters. ![]() The speech rallies the students to a standing ovation, but her subversive diatribe results in her getting a suspension from school. During a school assembly to hear the candidate's speeches, after Tracy only draws polite applause and Paul is barely able to read his speech, Tammy announces that the office of school president is useless and promises nothing, except to try and dissolve student government. In retaliation, Tammy decides to run for school president as well. Meanwhile, Paul's adopted younger sister Tammy (Jessica Campbell) is rejected by her romantic interest Lisa (Frankie Ingrassia), who dismisses their time together as "experimenting." Lisa then engages in a passionate relationship with Paul. Although Paul is ambivalent at first, he agrees to run, much to Tracy's consternation. McAllister suggests a new way to explore his talents through student council. Paul is unable to play football as he is recovering from a ski injury that resulted in his left leg being broken, and Mr. McAllister decides to persuade junior Paul Metzler (Chris Klein), a slow-witted, but affable and popular football player to enter the race. Perhaps annoyed by Tracy's presumptuousness, and/or concerned that he might give in to this seduction and share the same fate as his friend Dave, Mr. which he interprets as an indication she may later try to seduce him as she did with Dave. McAllister with her list of nominating signatures to qualify for the election ballot, she makes a remark about "working closely" together. Initially she is unopposed, as she is widely seen as the natural candidate for the job. Against this backdrop, Tracy announces that she is running for student council president. Earlier in the year, another teacher, Jim's best friend Dave Novotny (Mark Harelik) was fired from his job and divorced by his wife, Linda (Delaney Driscoll) after it came out that he and Tracy were having a sexual affair, while Tracy's reputation was unscathed. She lives with her bitter and divorced mother who encourages her to "to whatever it takes" to succeed in life. Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is an overachieving junior with an insufferable air of self-importance. Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a much-admired high school history teacher living in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, who is actively involved in many after-school activities, one of which is overseeing the student government election process. ![]()
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