TY  - ADVS
AU  - Mendes,Sam
AU  - Ball,Alan
AU  - Cohen,Bruce
AU  - Jinks,Dan
AU  - Spacey,Kevin
AU  - Bening,Annette
AU  - Birch,Thora
AU  - Bentley,Wes
AU  - Suvari,Mena
AU  - Gallagher,Peter
AU  - Cooper,Chris
AU  - Janney,Allison
AU  - Bakula,Scott
AU  - Robards,Sam
AU  - Hall,Conrad
AU  - Anwar,Tariq
AU  - Greenbury,Christopher
AU  - Newman,Thomas
ED  - Dreamworks Pictures.
ED  - Jinks/Cohen Company.
ED  - Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
ED  - Warner Home Video (Firm)
ED  - DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)
TI  - American beauty
SN  - 0783241232
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hollywood, Calif., Burbank, Calif.
PB  - Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, Distributed by Warner Home Video
KW  - Midlife crisis
KW  - Drama
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Disc was originally distributed in 2000 by Dreamworks Home Entertainment; Originally released as motion picture in 1999; Special features: American beauty: look closer ... a behind the scenes featurette ; film commentary with director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball ; storyboard presentation with commentary by Sam Mendes and director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; cast and crew biographies ; two theatrical trailers ; production notes; Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards; Rated R for strong sexuality, language, violence, and drug content
N2  - An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend
ER  -