Thought-provoking movie about our lives with great performances.

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 1999)

I just saw this movie with my mom and sister. I know it had a lot of things in it that would probably make you feel stupid when watching it with your mom but I didn't feel that embarassed. I wanted to watch a movie about real life with my mom so we could have something more interesting to talk about and I thought this would do it. It did. This movie tells the very truth that, I think, most people block out of there minds. Life is full of problems and we all have them. Even if they are differant than other people's problems, they still affect us all in the same way. I would give the movie an A just for that message. Also, most people on this Earth are too preoccupied with their life because they think they have it so bad, that they never stop to look at what they've got. If they were to look and see the many beautiful things in life just once, they'd see that their life is great for that reason alone. Well about the movie, it's great. I think it's the best movie this year so far. The performances are undescribable. Everyone does outstanding jobs, but the best by far is, of course, Kevin Spacey as the ever so true Lester Burnham. He does so good at bring the character to life that it's the best performance I've seen in my whole life and the best in movie history. He is your average person who starts to get fed up with his whole life and lives like he should've lived his entire life: doing anything he feels like doing. Even if that means masturbating right in front of his wife. His life being changed sets off the whole mess that messes his family up more than it already was, which was to say, a lot. He smokes weed, works out, listens to his music he used to when he was a wild teen, even falls in love with his sisters friend. More and more he changes, so does his family. Well, you can figure the rest out for yourself, can't you? Go see it. You'll look at life in a whole new way. You'll realize that your not the only one with problems. Even the people who live in a nice house with nice jobs have it bad. I just hope we can all learn that someday. We might not now, but trust me, you will. American Beauty: A+