American Rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2000)

I think this movie did so well, because the film industry knows how to lure in gullible people who will think the movie is "beautiful" and "deep" and well written. I came close to walking out several times.
The movie might have ended more perfectly if Kevin Spacey's character had just gone ahead and slept with Angela even after her admission of virginity, which was supposed to be the shocking "clincher" and wake up call. The movie did a horrible job of making fun of stereotypes. If you take the characters seriously, the movie is bad. Even if you see them as caricatures of disfunctional people, it still lacks all the depth that I've heard it supposedly has.