A Masterpiece in The Art Of Film

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2005)

I had serious doubts for this movie which I regret immediately after watching the first ten minutes of this remarkable film. Sam Mendes delivers this Family Portrait Romeo and Juliet esquire film with wonderful results.
Lester Burnham(Spacey)is a Father on the virge of a divorce and has a daughter he never gets a chance to talk to. Right next door lies the Fits family and their young filmmaker son. Both of these families are not fond of each other as they don't really get a chance to know each other. The movie breaks apart into 3 stories. Kevin Spacey and his ways of trying to put his family together, Annette Benning(Spaceys Wife)and her ways of being happy without her family, and Thora Birch and her love for the Fitt's son Ricky(Wes Bentley).
The acting is superb for the entire cast especially Spacey and Cooper. The art direction is superb and the director just did a fantastic job. This is definitely the best movie of 1999 and will go down in history as one of the best films of all time.