Friday, April 6, 2012

American Beauty [1999]


"... look closer"


Director: Sam Mendes
Writers: Alan Ball
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening and Thora Birch


Storyline

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 daughter's friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky, who lives with a homophobic father.

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