10 Films That Creepily Predicted 2016’s Biggest Moments

Back in 1999 Alexander Payne’s Election, an adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same name, hit the big screen. A satire centring on a suburban American high school’s student presidential election, the movie focused on overeager candidate Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) and her arch-nemesis Mr McAllister (Matthew Broderick), a history teacher hellbent on destroying her chances of election.

Blonde bobbed and ruthlessly ambitious with an overachiever mentality, Tracy Flick is knowledgeable, prepared and the best person for the job of student president but for one glaringly obvious snag: nobody really likes her. Sound familiar?

Recently when asked whether she’d consider portraying Hillary Clinton on screen, Witherspoon wryly replied that she’d already played a younger version of her in the shape of Tracy Flick.

It’s not too hard to see the similarities between the former First Lady and presidential hopeful and the fictional Flick either, from their Type A personalities to their campaign approach. Flick’s trying to win over her fellow students with cupcakes doesn’t feel too far from Clinton’s dabbing in an attempt to appeal to the cool kids.

Of course, there’s on major difference between Election and the results of the real-life presidential election. Flick won her election by the slightest of majorities but Clinton did not, ushering in four years of America under President Donald Trump. Thanks for that, Hillary.