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American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
from Dreamworks Video
starring Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Sam Robards
directed by Sam Mendes

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Excellent, Great, Convincing movie!
  This movie is really great. It doesn't seem much like a best picture movie, but who cares, it's an awesome movie! It is very disturbing, depressing, and serious. It's supposed to be a comedy-drama, but if you ask me, it's mostly a drama, not to say it isn't funny, it's just very serious, especially at the end. They said before I saw it that the movie would get stuck in my head for days. It concerned me forever. Of course, they said the same thing for Million Dollar Baby, but that didn't concern me that... more info

• A dreary story well told
  American Beauty is superbly performed and technically excellent. Despite this, I didn't care for it when I saw it in a theater.
  I decided to view it again to see if time would give me a different perspective. Nope. This tale about empty suburban lives still disappointed me. Examining how people can break out of a mind numbing rut can be illuminating and even entertaining, but every character choose a path that would only lead to aggravating their personal problems. Selfishness and death are substitutes... more info

• artistic attack on middle class values
  This is a good film and and I would like it except for two things: The title and the fact there was nothing to feel good about in watching this film--it was depressing. It is a not-so-subtle attack on middle class American values and institutions. Targets are the American Military, Marriage, gun ownership, corporate America/capitalism, consumerism, traditional morals and sexual mores etc....The only thing the writers left out was religion--none of the cast of dysfunctional people were church going... more info

• Absolutely Amazing
  This is one of my favorite movies and it gets better each time you watch it. You can identify with some of the characters in the movie and although it is dark and sad, it has a moral to the story and the ending was just amazingly done. Even though your sad for the main character, you still realize that his life had finished in a weirdly positive way. Hence the smile at the end. I highly recommend this movie. It should be in everyone's DVD collection and is one of those movies you can watch over and over... more info

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