American beauty / 
Dreamworks Pictures presents ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; directed by Sam Mendes. 
 - Awards ed. 
 - Hollywood, Calif. :  Burbank, Calif. :  Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment ;  Distributed by Warner Home Video,  ©2011. 
 - 1 videodisc (122 min.) :  sound, color ;  4 3/4 in. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.  Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman. 
<br/><br/>Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> MPAA rating: R for strong sexuality, language, violence, and drug content. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC. 
<br/><br/><br/>English language soundtrack; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired. 
<br/><br/> Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0783241232 9780783241234 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>667068538229 883929303779 032429256362 032429258687 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>85382  Paramount Home Entertainment 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Midlife crisis--Drama.<br/>Suburban life--Drama.<br/>Midlife crisis.<br/>Suburban life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Video recordings for the hearing impaired.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Drama.<br/>Drama.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Video recordings for the hearing impaired.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Video recordings for the hearing impaired.<br/>Films de fiction.<br/>Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.