Re-Election (film)

Re-Election is a 2025 American comedy film starring Adam Saunders.^[2][3]

Jimmy Bauer, a high school dropout who quit school after losing the election for senior class president to a classmate who went on to become the governor of Texas, is now working a dead-end job for his father, Stanislaw, and decides to return to his old alma mater to run for class president again in his forties.

Re-Election director and star Adam Saunders has said about the film, "In this deeply polarized political landscape, I wanted to make a fun, heartfelt, throwback political comedy — the kind of movie I loved growing up in Texas — that could be enjoyed by both sides of the political aisle. It’s a story about empathy, and personal responsibility, and how the stories we tell ourselves are the ones that shape our lives."^[4]

Dallas Observer, "That tonal balance is perhaps Saunders’ greatest achievement in Re-Election. He distributes his weight as writer, producer, director and actor by fully committing to each in turn instead of halfheartedly committing to them all simultaneously. In front of the camera, he is only thinking about acting. Behind it, he is fully focused on directing his actors."^[5]

Houston Press, "What sounds like a broad comedy is actually something deeper — a story about personal agency and the lies we tell ourselves about fate."^[6]

• Official website
• Re-Election at IMDb
• Re-Election at Rotten Tomatoes
• Re-Election at Metacritic
• Re-Election at Box Office Mojo