Part of the reason
why high school films are often sanitised is because they have to be suitable to attract the very demographics they are portraying.
Not exact matches
The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the
film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through
high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders
why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.
It's consequently not difficult to see
why Election is now considered a classic
high school comedy, although the presence of several decidedly adult themes (ie lesbianism, adultery, etc) ensures that viewers over a certain age will probably get a whole lot more out of the
film than teens.
Everyone is still peeved at the way Liam ditched
high school sweetheart Josie (Jessica Rothe, from Happy Death Day) on their wedding day — without explanation (an ambiguity that turns out to be preferable to the soapy, here's -
why - I - drink monologue we get from Liam in the closing moments of the
film).