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You Beauty!

Advantages: multi layered
Disadvantages: nothing really!

American beauty has so much to it, it really needs to be soon and not just read about. It's hard to stick it in one genre but I suppose drama would just about fit it. It tells the story of Lester Burbank, a small town american father whose going through a midlife crisis. The film is really about the Burbank family and how Lester's problems impact the rest of the family from his unhappy daughter to his adulteress wife. There are so many layers it's ...

MikeWoods 13.09.2000 · Read full review
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American Ugly

Advantages: Mena Suvari
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I rented out this film tonight and as I watched I wondered how it won so many awards.wait I can understand why, it is because Mena Suvari and Thora Birch got their tops of for a minute. I think Kevin Spacey deserved his ocsar but the rest of the film wasn't really that inpressive. Purhapse it is just not my type of film or genre but I didn't find it that good. I hope that Sam Mendes was lucky that this film became a big hit maybe it did because woman ...

Alan_Percival 05.08.2000 · Read full review
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Hillarious, great, the best movie i have ever seen

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Help me to find more expressions to say who I enjoyed this film. There is no better film out there. The movie's topic is the always the same and repeating life of two families in a suburban area. On one side there are the Burnhams: Lester, a looser, his wife Carolyne, a hyperorganized woman, and their daughter, who Lester describes as every teenager "angry, uncertain, introverted..". They get new neighbours, the Phitts, Colonel Phitts, his somehow ...
...the moment in which the life really changes is when Lester falls in love with his daughter's friend, Angela. In this moment the story becomes weird. I can recommend this film witout reduces. Although I cannot really describe the film's magic, or because of this I hope everyone who has not seen the film yet will go see it. ...

kareo 07.06.2000 · Read full review
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A beautiful debut

Advantages: Visually beautiful
Disadvantages: Art shots become tedious

American Beauty is a haunting, beautiful film, and a wonderful directorial debut from Sam Mendes. The study o fone middle-aged man's descent into breakdown and point of self-discovery is understated and sensitive. By way of contrast, the portrayal of his wife as a social-climbing, shrieking monster is unconvincing and, frnakly, two-dimensional. However, in the middle of it all, Mena Suvari looks fragile and beautiful, and the other central characters ...

Kate 07.06.2000 · Read full review
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How life really is!

Advantages: Makes you think!
Disadvantages: Not for the young!

Watching this movie is a little like seeing life at its worse, but most honest. It is a movie that tells how one can be perceived, but not really be. Sort of like your next door neighbors, we see them one way, how they present themselves to us, but do we REALLY know them! Upon seeing this movie, you can truly understand why it won so many awards! I would recommend this movie for all adult viewers. It is definitely not a movie to be watched by anyone ...

strawberry19 18.06.2000 · Read full review
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Hilarious American Small Town Drama

Advantages: Great entertainment
Disadvantages: None

This has to be one of the best films this year! Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening portray a couple in a midlife crisis - a story that ends in disaster. Alan Ball wrote a fabulous script and literally tailored the character of Lester Burnham for Spacey. Hilarious moments are guaranteed when Lester takes a liking to Mena Suvari, the best friend of his daughter. The whole film is a masterpiece, juggling between a laughing and a crying eye throughout and ...

josephine 31.05.2000 · Read full review
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Not a good movie to watch!

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: potrays the immoral activities of american family

...Kevin Spacey for such a good portrayal of the crazy husband/dad. This movie portrays the crumbling, moral decaying of the typical American family. But I dont think American family is like that. I rate this movie poor, although the acting was good but the storyline was not appropriate to watch. ...

pehchiong 27.07.2000 · Read full review
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A Modern Classic

Advantages: Classic film with tons of extras
Disadvantages: The cut scenes mentioned aren't included!

The Film: A modern classic, you chould already have seen this on the big screen. If you haven't the DVD is a complete package that provides the full widescreen release and plenty of background and making of information. The journey of Kevin Spacey's character to self knowledge, respect and - as we're told in the first seconds of the film - death. Funny, dark and worthy of repeat viewings. The DVD: Not only the film, but also a complete directors ...

sdunthorne 09.01.2001 (07.01.2001) · Read full review
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