If I am told I have only two hours to live, run "American Beauty" for me. Those two hours will seem an eternity.

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2000)

As I watched this movie, I was reminded of the Seinfeld episode in which every one was enthralled by "The English Patient" except Elaine. If this was the Best Movie of 1999, those which came in second and down must have been high school projects. So the saviour of the neighborhood was the psychotic, video-obsessed (I kept thinking "Oh, God, will the paper-bag sequence never end!")drug dealer, and all the "normal" folks were really the ones messed up. Wow. How original. Yawn.