10 Movies That Deserved To Become Cult Classics (But Didn't)

Taking its spot here as yet another film that has unquestionably been appreciated by a decent amount of fans over the years, without ever fully becoming an out-and-out cult classic, the Reese Witherspoon-starring 1999 black comedy known as Election feels like the sort of film tailor-made for cult hit status.

Despite not exactly succeeding at the box office, the satirical flick centred around a high school student body election, and one particularly driven student president candidate by the name of Tracy Flick, earned a ton of critical praise when it dropped at the end of the century.

Yet, in the wake of picking up an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, the film largely went under the radar for the decades that followed, with Election's razor sharp script and top-class performances from Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick only being revisited by a particularly small class of supporters.

That being said, the fact the adaptation of the 1998 Tom Perotta novel of the same name has since earned itself a sequel adaptation of the author's 2022 follow-up novel Tracy Flick Can’t Win may help shed some more light on the cherished-by-some high school picture in the coming years.