American Beauty

"A dark comical masterpiece that single-handedly announces the collapse of the American family infrastructure as it exists on the brink of Y2K (TNT RoughCut)."

"A dynamite comedy-drama that, unless it stiffs big-time at the box office, should be up for multi-Oscar nominations come February" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Language: English
IMDB Rating: 8.6/ 10

Plot:Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughter's friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky, who lives with a homophobic father (IMDB).

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