American Beauty
(1999)
Synopsis
An advertising executive has a midlife meltdown after becoming infatuated with his daughter's friend and discovering his materialistic wife's infidelity. This Best Picture winner is a biting satire of middle-class suburban Americans in the late 1990s.
Directors
Sam Mendes, Thomas Newman, Paula Abdul, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Ben Scott, Stan Wlodkowski, Debra Zane, Christopher Greenbury, Bob Beemer, Pete Townshend, Alan Ball, Scott Martin Gershin
Production year
1999
Rating
R
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Runtime
122 minutes
Cast
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari