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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...
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Andy Spletzer The Stranger (Seattle, WA) The highly entertaining dark comedy American Beauty uses its cardboard characters very well. Full Review | Mar 2, 2018. Israel Paredes Sensacine.
I think it's a great movie, a very well done social critique of 90's American families The actors' acting is amazing in this movie, the cinematography is really good too The film has a certain melancholy and sad tone especially towards the end with Lester's final monologue.
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A lot of the movies that students tell me they love have changed through the years, as Tarantino and Coen brother enthsiasts have given way to Nolan and Villenueve enthusiasts, yet American Beauty has continued to be that film that numerous freshmen will cite as "their favorite movie", while seniors and grad students almost universally dislike it.
Sep 24, 1999 · Roger Ebert September 24, 1999. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems. And a tragedy because we can identify with his failure--not the specific details, but the general outline.
American Beauty: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
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 .