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“American Beauty” dominated the 1999 Academy Awards, sweeping the board of biggies picking up the acclaimed Best Picture award, Best Actor, Best Director, Cinematography and Writing. It was certainly worthy of such honour, being one of the most original films I have seen in a long time, breaking ... Read review

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Any closer I'd be licking the screen...

Advantages: Spacey, Mendes, rose petals
Disadvantages: Steven Spielberg

...Lester is slave to the American Dream’s by-product rigid routine lifestyle and is shackled in a passionless marriage with a cheating wife… Until today; Lester’s awakening is about to begin.
“I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years. And I'm just now waking up.”
Suffering a severe mid-life-crisis, Lester’s awakening into reality is catalyzed by his daughter Jane’s self-loving, egomaniac, cheerleader “friend” Angela ...
...his own take on the American dream in Blue Velvet) who is known for his eccentricities and pretentiousness.

Spacey’s performance was fantastic, thus resulting in him grabbing the gold’un (not a euphemism for masturbation) at the Ac awards. His straight-faced comedy had me in kinks, while he was able to be empathized with concurrently - playing a man of tragedy too. The juxtaposition of comedy and tragedy is outstanding; both balanced ... more

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Who Killed Lester Burnham ?

Advantages: Cast/ Visuals/Script/Ending
Disadvantages: Different from book

AMERICAN BEAUTY Certificate; 18 (Sexuality, language, violence and drugs) Duration; 122 minutes. Direction; Sam Mendes. Cast; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula. The ‘American Beauty’ of the title refers to the beauty of the American dream. Living in a beautiful home surrounded by beautiful gardens with a beautiful white picket fence in ...
...lift the lid on the American dream and delve deeper to find out what goes on beyond those front doors. The film begins with an aerial shot of a typical American neighbourhood, slowly drifting from street to street like a leaf being guided by the wind. Accompanying this is a narration by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey); “I’m 42 years old and even though I don’t know it, in less than a year, I’ll be dead” These words from ...

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Looking Closer

Advantages: One of my favourites
Disadvantages: Nothing worth mentioning

Released in 1999, Sam Mendes’ American Beauty is one of my favourite films, and achieved the rare double of receiving both critical and commercial acclaim. A big screen debut for both director Mendes and writer Alan Ball, it was nominated for eight Oscars, and won five. It’s a film of some depth, taking an everyday suburban existence and examining its appearances and relationships in terms of (amongst other things) personal fulfilment, family ties, ...
...the film was ‘look closer’ – and guided by Mendes’ skilled direction, you do. Lester and Carolyn Burnham (Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening) are a typical middle class suburban couple: nice house, decent jobs and a teenage daughter Jane (Thora Birch) in high school. They get on well with the neighbours, drive nice cars and gather each night for a family dinner with no TV. Carolyn is an ambitious, driven and success-hungry realtor, while Lester works ...

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...on the academy award winning American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey. Now im actually a really big Spacey fan, some of his work including The Usual Suspects and K PAX have been some of his best work. He has the knack of just making you admire what ever character he plays, he has a sort of presence that makes you feel this film is going to be powerful. He has a humorous side, he can play a dark side you name it, I even liked his recent portrayal of ...
...Jane, who is the typical American teenager. The family live what is pretty much a normal life, the wife wanting to move up in the real estate world, a dad who just gets on with his life and a teenage daughter who's really just embarrassed about her parents. All of a sudden, one magical and gifted day Jane brings home a friend named Angela Hayes, who instantly attracts the attention of Lester. He can't seem to lay his eyes off her; Angela is simply ...

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Two old bulls

Advantages: Spacey, the story, oh and everything
Disadvantages: None

...is an amazing depiction of American life and the generation gap and despair at the passing of life, but at the same time a reassuring promise that the maturity of age has its own benefits. So when your paunch is sagging, and your heart sags more heavily, just think of this masterpiece and the startling performance and renaissance of Kevin Spacey. When it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...
...of this intriguing portrait of American life, but it's all I'm going to give you because it would only spoil the pleasure for you, and would come over poorly on the printed (or HTML) page. You really need to see the tale unfold to appreciate it. Spacey and Bening are wonderful in this film, particularly Bening, who plays a materialistic, shallow, domineering moneygrabber. Being has said: "Carolyn really doesn’t have any insight into what Lester’s ...

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The Truthful Intricacies

Advantages: Life like characters caught in the quicksand of social chaos
Disadvantages: Language, drug content

...first shot of the movie American Beauty, is very placid and looking harmless. The image is a very desirable one for any town. But below this camouflage of living in decency, one can feel the tense palpable heart throbs, a fearfulness and an imbalance. It is said that beauty is skin deep, but American Beauty nudges deep through to the marrow of American society and explores its spirit. Sam Mendes, the debutant director, very fresh from his experience ...
...There enters the self declared American Beauty Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari) who is Jane’s best friend. She advocates her sermon, “there is nothing worse in life than being ordinary”. Lester spots her in a basket ball game an indulges in a series of very beautifully filmed fantasies that drive him lustfully crazy, and he hatches plans to possess her. To impress the Lolita of his fantasies he quits his job, starts lifting weights, jogs ...

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of women being angry at Will. The directors, Chris and Paul Weitz, had very interesting ways of shooting the scenes. These are the dudes who did American Beauty. Features in the DVD = For once, I have found a DVD that contain a reasonably large amount of additional features other than the movie itself. There was a full length commentary by the directors for the entire movie. It was interesting to hear what they had to say on some of the scenes and what they had to do to achieve them. For example, in one of the scene, I could see the backgarden of Marcus's house and I really believed that. In the commentary, the directors kindly informed us that the outside scenery was actually a painting! There were short interviews with the main casts, so it was nice to hear what Toni Collette, Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult had to ...

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opinion the best character). All the acting is superb! The series is produced and co-written by Alan Ball who won an Oscar for writing American Beauty. The series also features the best title sequence on TV! On the DVD: It is a 4-disc set with 13 episodes You get a 20 minute featurette with interviews from cast and crew. Episode commentries by Alan Ball. A deleted scene from the pilot episode. A 15 minute featurette on the making of those excellent titles. All the episode summaries And more... My only major problem with this purchase was the box the dvds came in. It is designed to lift out the dvds when you open it, but mine ripped after the first opening. However, it was nothing some tape didnt fix, and it may have just been mine was faulty - so don't let you discourage you at all!! Don't miss out on this wonderful series!! ...

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