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David, I agree with you about Chloë Sevigny, and thank you, too, for singling out Reese Witherspoon, playing the pathological goody-goody in Election , as one of the year's best performances; your description of her leaps and bounds brought back images that match any this year for memorability: the scene where she's alone in the hallway, bouncing higher than a pogo stick, her feet kicked way back behind her in unison as she leapt.
That aside, the rapier is better than the bludgeon--unless, of course, you are a Los Angeles policeman hamstrung by goody-goody regulations made by a bunch of stupid, corrupt, persistently naive politicians who won't let a guy serve and protect.
After all, we live , as all smokers realize, in an age of goody-goody moralism.
Miller describes Bob Marley's stance as "uplifting unruliness," and notes that when The Harder They Come set Jamaica's record for box-office take, it replaced The Sound of Music , "a musical that perfectly symbolizes the goody-goody moralism that, for better or worse, reggae, like rock and roll, mocked, ridiculed, and beat into cultural retreat."
a nearly flawless little film" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Reese Witherspoon turns in a spectacular performance as a ferociously ambitious goody-goody go-getter who's running for student council president.