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American beauty [videorecording] / - Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011] - 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally released as motion picture in 1999. Special features: American beauty: look closer ... a behind the scenes featurette ; film commentary with director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball ; storyboard presentation with commentary by Sam Mendes and director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; cast and crew biographies ; two theatrical trailers ; production notes.

Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman. Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.

Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.

An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.


DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC.


English language soundtrack ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.

ISBN: 0783241232 9780783241234

Standard No.: 667068538229

Publisher. No.: 85382 Paramount Home Entertainment

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Midlife crisis--Drama.
Suburban life--Drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72