American beauty / Dreamworks Pictures presents ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; directed by Sam Mendes.
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FilmLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Burbank, Calif. : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2011Edition: Awards edDescription: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscISBN: 0783241232; 9780783241234Uniform titles: American beauty (Motion picture) Subject(s): Midlife crisis -- Drama | Suburban life -- Drama | Midlife crisis | Suburban lifeGenre/Form: Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Feature films. | Fiction films. | Drama. | Drama. | Feature films. | Fiction films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Fiction films. | Feature films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Films de fiction. | Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Production credits: Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.Awards: Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.Summary: 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.
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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.
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.
MPAA rating: R for strong sexuality, language, violence, and drug content.
DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC.
English language soundtrack; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.
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