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1. • • I n 2019, beating up on Sam Mendes’ multi-Oscar-winning American Beauty, released roughly 20 years ago this week, is so painfully easy that it seems unfair. The Best Picture winner has fallen largely out of fashion; it rarely appears on critics’ lists of favorite movies, and its memory seems to have faded for most moviegoers, too.
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   Is American Beauty a bad movie?

   • American Beauty was a bad movie then, and it’s bad now: Kevin Spacey plays middle-aged suburban husband Lester Burnham, with a good but boring job, who recognizes how empty his life is when he develops an obsession—one he almost acts upon—with his teenage daughter’s school friend, played by Mena Suvari.

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   • "American Beauty Was Bad 20 Years Ago and It's Bad Now. But It Still Has Something to Tell Us". Time. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2023. ^ Fetters, Ashley; Zuckerman, Esther (September 15, 2014). "Examining 'American Beauty' at 15: A masterpiece, or a farce?". Entertainment Weekly.

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   Where can I watch American Beauty?

   • Rent American Beauty on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Flawlessly cast and brimming with dark, acid wit, American Beauty is a smart, provocative high point of late '90s mainstream Hollywood film. Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a gainfully employed suburban husband and father.

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   What is American Beauty about?

   • American Beauty is a movie about a privileged white guy who feels bad about himself and tries to rectify that by exploding his life—only to lose it all in the end. It’s about a man who thought he had control, but didn’t—and who can’t, at the very least, relate to that?

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   American Beauty is a comedy drama about a father in a mid-life crisis after being infatuated by his daughters friend... but that's just the tipping point of the story.

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   • Director: Sam Mendes

   • Content Rating: R
   • Actors: Kevin Spacey

4. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › american-beauty-1999American Beauty movie review & film summary (1999) | Roger Ebert

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   Sep 24, 1999 · Not the kind of victory you'd get in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you prove something important, if only to yourself. "American Beauty" is not as dark or twisted as " Happiness ," last year's attempt to shine a light under the rock of American society.

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   The praise American Beauty has received has waned in recent years, and in my opinion for good reason. At the time it was considering a critique on the American dream from the lens of a straight white upper class male. The acting, score, and story are quite memorable.

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   Sep 15, 2014 · Fifteen years ago this week, Sam Mendes’ film American Beauty arrived in U.S. theaters. In Florida, a film critic named Jay Boyar reviewed Mendes’ first full-length feature for the Orlando...

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   American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari.

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    Sep 15, 1999 · Online Film & Television Association. • 10 Wins & 18 Nominations. Provoked by forbidden passions, Lester Burnham (Spacey) decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn.