A masterpiece in filmaking.

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 1999)

I recently viewed "American Beauty", a shocking, engaging look inside the tumoltuos life of one suburban >family and their lives outside of the home.I would rate >this as one of the best films ever made, standing alongside such greats as "Pulp Fiction", "The Godfather" >and "Pulp Fiction". Kevin Spacey is excellent, as is the winning Annette >Bening. Both deserve Oscar nods, and subsequet wins for >there stunnigly open and lurid portrayals of a husband and wife both enduring there own and each others mid-life crises. Their daughter, Jane, played with such contempt >and at the same time love by Thora Birch should be a stiff customer in the Supporting Actress category come Oscar time for her on the mark 90's teen. The rest of the cast, >including the enchanting Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper in his >best role since "The Horse Whisperer" and in her subtle >role as Coopers wife, Alison Janney says everything with >just a few words and a lost twinkle in her eye. See this film, buy this film and show it to as many >people as you can.