I am glad there is a good masterpiece that people actually brag about.

Rating: 9/10 (4 December 2000)

What a good movie. Oh wait, this was better than good. This was some kind of splendor that only comes around once in a while. The last as good as this movie was Shawshank Redemption. Kevin Spacey(Lester Burnham) was splendid as a 40 year old who is on the verge of a mid-life crisis. He breaks out of that when he meets Angela Hayes, Jane Burnham's friend. Meanwhile, there is Annette Bening(Carolyn Burnham) who has already been in a mid-life crisis. She goes off and decides to fornicate with Buddy Kane(Peter Gallagher) for a while. For it wasn't those characters that touch me the most. SPOILER ALERT
Wes Bentley(Ricky Fitts) was probably the most touching person in this movie. Unlike a lot of people, He looks at stuff from a different perspective. He looks at the beauty of the earth. The way he showed the plastic bag on the winter day was just awesome. He did all this with living with Chris Cooper I(Colonel Frank Fitts) who is a cruel, mean, guy with a secret gay life and most possibly the one who shot Lester Burnham in the head.
This is probably 3rd on my list of favorite movies. My top 3 are 1. Shawshank Redemption, 2. Godfather, 3. American Beauty. ***** out of *****. A+ effort.