The worst thing in the world is to be ordinary...

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2000)

Great film, led by Kevin Spacey's performance. As a fairly ordinary person, I can still appreciate extraordinary lives. And "American Beauty" is filled with them. From the Nazi marine officer to his brilliant, talented son. From Benning's success-driven housewife to Spacey's midlife crisis. The only ordinary things in the movie are the suburban street everyone lives on.