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Rated: R; Length: 121 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Annette Bening and Kevin Spacey See More
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American BeautyB+
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
A variation on the ominous Pop-art suburbia of Blue Velvet and The Truman Show. Lester and Carolyn Burnham (Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening) are your basic, everyday miserable middle-class couple. At a high school basketball game, Lester catches sight of a dirty-delectable cheerleader, and something in him snaps. He decides to abandon everything he has for the chance to sleep with that girl. Spacey makes Lester ironically jaunty about his own unhappiness; the character is like a suburban Travis Bickle -- off his rocker but happy about it. American Beauty has an entrancing surface, yet by the time the movie reaches its ''dark'' resolution, it feels pat and preconceived. B+
Posted Sep 24, 1999
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