American Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (21 September 2006)

American Beauty (1999)
Number 1 - 1999
..Look Closer
One of the most enigmatic and explicitly revealing films of recent years. Truly an astonishing and immeasurably impactive film of Oscar calibre. Spacey and Bening deliver superb performances that carry out the film's exceptionally funny and dark script.
This multi-academy award winning film is unnerving and chilling with superb cinematography, screenplay, direction and acting make it a modern American classic.
The hero is a run down middle-aged man with problems and a tick for fancying his daughters friends. It's a funny film because it is tragic; irrelevant yet so magnificently important.
"An unsettling and unnerving, poignant and darkly chilling masterpiece *****"
"Astonishing"
"A flat out masterpiece"
"A signature landmark in American film-making"