American Beauty (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: August 29, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: Paramount

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1999 - Best Actor: Kevin Spacey
Academy Awards 1999 - Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall
Academy Awards 1999 - Best Director: Sam Mendes
Academy Awards 1999 - Best Original Screenplay: Alan Ball
Academy Awards 1999 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

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Rating: A+ -- American Beauty (1999) is a tragic, absurdist, satirical and dark domestic tale - and the debut feature film of British-London theatrical-stage director Sam Mendes. Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Sep 27, 2019
This engrossing centrepiece meshes with subplots involving Burnham's dysfunctional family and unbalanced neighbours, in a virtuoso study of isolation, repression and fulfilment. Mendes infuses the lush visuals and lyrical script with dramatic panache. Full Review
Times (UK)
Feb 23, 2015
As faux-deep Oscar bait goes, American Beauty is as broad and predictable as an episode of Three's Company. Full Review
Uproxx
Sep 16, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- We never really see the downtrodden nature of Burnham's life pre-awakening, we just take it as a given from Burnham's own sarcastic narration. Full Review
Patrick Nabarro
Dec 1, 2018
...AMERICAN BEAUTY is that rare instance where all the elements of a movie -- story, setting, acting, shot construction -- come together to convey its message...
Box Office
Nov 1, 1999
...Spacey gives sardonic snap to every line he delivers....The movie is a beaut. It's as feeling as it is funny, a quality recent movies seemed to have lost...
USA Today
Sep 15, 1999
American Beauty is deeply disturbing, acerbically funny, brilliantly acted, breathtakingly original and highly sophisticated. Full Review
CNN.com
Feb 23, 2015

Product Description:

AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a technique that adds an inevitable tension to the proceedings and keeps the story moving forward at all times. On a whim, Lester quits his job and begins a regression into young adulthood, lifting weights, smoking pot, doing nothing, and discovering the overflowing sexuality of his 16-year-old daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), has her own midlife crisis of sorts. A real estate agent, she experiences a youthful awakening when super-agent Buddy Kane (Peter Gallagher) seduces her repeatedly. Meanwhile, Jane (Thora Birch), the Burnhams' daughter, is pursued by Ricky (Wes Bentley), the mysterious boy next door who carries a video camera around with him at all times. When Ricky's militaristic father, Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper), discovers something potentially horrifying on one of his tapes, and when Carolyn's rage for Lester's actions boils over, the time bomb finally explodes.

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