Eerie and fabulous film!

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 1999)

The most "normal" people in American Beauty are a 42-year-old mid-life crisis case and the voyuer next door. Like the recent Election, it's about one man's descent from a "perfect" life to something completely different. First-time film director Sam Mendes (who recently brought The Blue Room and Cabaret to Broadway) has created the sort of vision of suburbia that makes most of us feel lucky that we don't live like that!