Available to buy:

American Beauty
(The Awards Edition)
DVD
cover

American Beauty
VHS Tape
cover

American Beauty
(The Awards Edition)
VHS Tape
cover

Almost Famous &
American Beauty
DVD
cover

American Beauty:
Original Motion Picture Score
Audio CD
cover

American Beauty:
Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Audio CD
cover

American Beauty:
The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts)
by Alan Ball
Book
cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 
 
                          

American Beauty (1999)

Title: American Beauty
Released: 1999
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 122 min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Plot Summary: Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.

Comments: Unforgettable. American Beauty may (and should) go down as the most unparrallelled movie of its time. This movie, which could not be more difficult to explain to one who hasn't seen it, grapples the viewer from the first instance. This film succeeds not only because of the unbelievable script, but because the fact that when the film ends, you DO acknowledge the performances of the film (Benning is unbelievable), but seem to put individual performances aside to the movie itself. Few movies place you in the surreal-yet-too-real environment that this film seems to put you in. Watching this movie, you will become immersed in this family and what occurs to them, despite the fact that they seem to be the most ordinary family a mind could imagine. Whether or not Spacey deserved the Oscar should be irrelevent - the story behind this movie should be remembered for ages.

Cast overview:
Kevin Spacey .... Lester Burnham
Annette Bening .... Carolyn Burnham
Thora Birch .... Jane Burnham
Wes Bentley .... Ricky Fitts
Mena Suvari .... Angela Hayes
Peter Gallagher .... Buddy Kane
Allison Janney .... Barbara Fitts
Chris Cooper .... Col. Frank Fitts, USMC
Scott Bakula .... Jim Olmeyer
Sam Robards .... Jim Berkley
Barry Del Sherman .... Brad Dupree
Ara Celi .... Sale House Woman #1
John Cho .... Sale House Man #1
Fort Atkinson .... Sale House Man #2
Sue Casey .... Sale House Woman #2

Movie scenes preview:
Scene #1

Scene Description: Mena Suvari in a topless scene laying on a couch as Kevin Spacey pulls down her pants and then opens her shirt to reveal her breasts.

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Scene #2

Scene Description: A young Thora Birch seen standing in a window as she first removes her shirt to reveal her bra, and then unhooks her bra slowly to show us her large, natural breasts.

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Available to buy:
 American Beauty (The Awards Edition) (DVD)
 American Beauty (VHS)
 American Beauty (The Awards Edition) (VHS)
 Almost Famous / American Beauty (DVD)
 American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score (Audio CD)
 American Beauty: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)
 American Beauty: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts)
 (Book)
 American Beauty, Movie-Reprint Poster, 27x40
 American Beauty (Rolled Advance 1-Sheet), Framed Movie Print
 Mena Suvari and Thora Birch - American Beauty, B/W Glossy Photo, 10x8
 American Beauty, Color Glossy Photo, 10x8