Family film for grown ups

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2002)

American Beauty is for Hollywood family film standards an extremely good movie.The story is surprising and very much black comedy.Kevin Spacey rules as a dull mainstream American who turns into a man full of life who buys a red cadillac and smokes wiet.The ending is pretty shocking because you don't expect it at all.The Oscars for best picture,best director and for best actor are well deserved.Spacey shows that he is a great actor,something we already saw in Se7en and in the instant classic the Usual Suspects.All films with a surprising and shocking ending,by the way.Sam Mendes directs his first picture with great power and proved in Road to Perdition that he will be a big name in Hollywood in the future.The music-score is also very good and deserved an oscar.
10/10