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American Beauty: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
American Beauty (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Movie starts with a teenage girl talking about her Dad spraying his shorts when she brings a female friend over. Within first 5 minutes, main male character is seen masturbating in the shower (slight nudity seen, his bare back and top of his buttocks, arm movement seen), and we see a breast enhancement website. Edit.
Of the 250+ films I've seen and rated on IMDb, only one other (Schindler's List) is as good as American Beauty. A film like this not only entertains while you're in the theater but also drops subtle questions in your head about the nature of human behavior and the gulf between fantasy and reality.
Wes Bentley is an American actor who first became well-known via his role in the Oscar-winning film American Beauty (1999), in which he played the soulful, artistic next-door neighbor Ricky Fitts.
The American Beauty: Directed by Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia. With Alfred Adam, Colette Brosset, Robert Burnier, Pierre Dac. Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertible by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover.
Notable performances have since included an obsessive, pushy real estate agent in American Beauty (1999), and as the eponymous character in István Szabó's screen adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel Being Julia (2004) - both were duly noted by the Academy, with Oscar nominations.
The American Beauty: Directed by William Desmond Taylor. With Myrtle Stedman, Elliott Dexter, Howard Davies, Jack Livingston. The infant daughter of a wealthy couple is thought to be lost at sea, but she survives and is raised by a poor family.
American Beauty: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
A few months later, she turned even more heads as the vampish cheerleader who captures Kevin Spacey's unwholesome imagination in American Beauty (1999). The sultry-but-fragile character earned Suvari a British Academy Award nomination, as well as a flurry of job offers and gushing fansites.
