American Beauty(1999)- User Reviews

AMERICAN BEAUTY won the academy award for best picture, Kevin Spacey for best actor in a leading role, and Sam Mendes for best director. This is one of the greatest movies ever made, and I realized this not log into the movie. AB is about the lives of …more»

Love this movie. Kevin Spacey excels and it's probably why he won the Oscar for Best Actor that year. Chris Cooper, wow! What a bigot and hard-line type of creature. EVERYONE in this movie is great, including Allison Janney as the robot wife of …more»

This film was brilliant. It expresses everything that means anything. At times I am feel extraordinarily alone. This film cures me. I can stare on ward and listen to the words. I feel like I am floating in space, but that there is a greater depth …more»

Will always perhaps be kevin Spaceys best performance that won him the oscar in this drama of some what dysfunctional people in american suburban lfe mainly concentrating on spaceys character Lester and what happens around him as he quits his business …more»

"... has great acting from Kevin Spacey. This is a very unusual and powerful drama. It's not predictable and unlike any other film I've seen before."more»

No movie that I have seen does a better job at describing beauty than this movie does. In fact, it does such a good job that I'm not even going to try copy what it said, at the risk of me failing to do it justice. From top to bottom, every cast …more»

I simply adore this movie. It's simply perfect, from actors to the sound design and art direction, this movie is amazing. I have it on my iPod, and keep watching it over and over again.more»

"American Beauty" is witty, insightful and features some of the best performances of the past century, especially that of Spacey as a bored and sexually frustrated middle-class American and that of Bening as his arrogant, selfish, career-dependant …more»

All is not as it seems in this 1999 drama directed by Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road. Kevin Spacey brillantly stars as Lester Burnham, a man in a midlife crisis after his teenage daughter's best friend. Annette Bening as his dissatisfied wife Carolyn, …more»

American Beauty is a film with a lot of truth to it. Kevin Spacey is very good, and deserved the Oscar. It is a very weird movie and is definitely only for mature audiences, but it's worth seeing if you are old enough.more»