American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes, is centered around the suburban life of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) who is going through a mid-life crisis that not only affects him but his family and neighbors as well. He begins fantasizing about one of his daughters high school friends and can't keep his mind off her. His psychotic wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) is too obsessed with her job as a real-estate agent to care about her husband's problems and starts having an affair with one of her own rivals. Lester's daughter Jane, who hates her father, becomes friends with Ricky Fitts, her new and quite strange next door neighbor who starts selling pot to Lester. Ricky's father, Col. Frank Fitts, is a homophobic ex U.S. Marine who abuses Ricky and mistakes one of Ricky's drug transactions to Lester as a sexual act. American Beauty is a very smart and funny look at mid-life crisis', family, and life in the suburbs.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3ltyPJJMQ
http://www.dreamworks.com/ab/
1 comment:
I do not think that funny would be a word to describe this film. It was a good, but twisted movie; moreover, I do not think that it describes the life in the suburbs.
Post a Comment