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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.
Rock seems to have its own mile-wide streak of goody-goody moralism (with some standouts like Janis Ian, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby who are nothing but).
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.