Summary
A documentary on the competition for student body president at New York's Stuyvesant High School. As the notoriously competitive school's election draws near, the campaign becomes a microcosm for the nation at large, with race, gender and appearance vying for attention with real issues.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+15)
Critics 77Audiences 62GoodWatch 62
Tomatometer85%
Metascore69
IMDb6.5
Audience score59%
Running time
1 h 20 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −16 min on the typical 96
typical 9680Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
2008
October 15, 2008
18 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Caroline Suh Director
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