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American Beauty (1999)
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From its first gliding aerial shot of a generic suburban street, American Beauty moves with a mesmerizing confidence and acuity epitomized by Kevin Spacey's calm narration. Spacey is Lester Burnham, a harried Everyman whose midlife awakening is the spine of the story, and his very first lines hook us with their teasing fatalism--like Sunset Boulevard's Joe Gillis, Burnham tells us his story from beyond the grave. It's an audacious start for a film that justifies that audacity. Weaving social satire, domestic tragedy, and whodunit into a single package, Alan Ball's first theatrical script dares to blur generic lines and keep...
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American Beauty Movie Review by B Movie Ben  (10/20/2007) |
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When did it happen that we became so obsessed over possessions and what other people thought that it ruled our lives? Was it always this way? One day Lester (Kevin Spacey) wakes up and realizes that "It's just a couch!" Only then could he move down the road that led to true happiness. Unfortunately, it proved to be too...
(complete American Beauty review by B Movie Ben)
| American Beauty Movie Review by Jarrod (7/18/2007) |
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'American Beauty' is about a dysfunctional suburban family, distant and emotionally isolated, each of its members neurotic and desperate for a fulfillment of their deepest desires. Lester Burnham (Spacey) is going through a mid-life crisis, apathetic towards everything, especially his job, which he stands to lose because...
(complete American Beauty review by Jarrod)
| American Beauty Movie Review by BillyBob (2/11/2008) |
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Of course, everyone is more than familiar with the term 'Homophobic'.
Well, how about the term 'Hetero-phobic' ? In my opinion, I'd say that 'American Beauty' (or 'AB' for short) is 'Hetero-phobic'. It is. The hetero-phobia contained in the story is not that easy to detect at first, but believe me, it's there, alright....
(complete American Beauty review by BillyBob)
On occasion a film will come along that will personally affect me to the point of tears. This film will help me to better understand myself as well as those around me and ultimately better prepare for the world outside my base and redundant reality. The films that tend to leave this kind of everlasting mark are rarely...
(complete American Beauty review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| American Beauty Movie Review by Megan (2/4/2007) |
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This was one of those movies, after watching it, I was gob smacked. I didn;t know what to make of it. It is candy coated intense. Amazing cast that real made me either hate or feel for the characters. And though it falls under fiction I feel whomever wrote it must have had some major teenaged angst growing up.
Kevin...
(complete American Beauty review by Megan)
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