American Beauty
Published: 9 years ago
Description:
Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighbourhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughter’s friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky, who lives withhis homophobic father. Lester has an almost midlife crisis when he quits his job, starts smoking pot and lifting weights to impress his daughters friend, how willtheir livesend up when everything is spinning out of control
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher
Year: 1999
Length: 122 Minutes
Classification: MA15+ Strong themes, Drug use & Violence
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