| Matthew Broderick, in a bizarre twist, plays a stodgy middle-aged high
school teacher who has to deal with an upstart student. The student in
question is one of those blonde overacheiver ice maidens that everyone hates,
and her goal is to win the election for class president. To keep her from
total domination, the teacher decides to convince the injured football team
captain and all-around goody-goody-two-shoes to run against her. More
interestingly, said captain's younger sister is a budding dyke, who is in
lust with a girl who has decided she's done experimenting and now wants a
real boy-- say, an injured football team captain. Okay, it's all very
confused and involved, and had the makings of an excellent film, but I prefer
Broderick in a hero role, and every scene with the ice maiden in it was sheer
torture: likes nails across a blackboard. Sigh.
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