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American beauty [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures presents ; directed by Sam Mendes ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 85382 | DreamWorks Home EntertainmentPublication details: Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, c2000.Edition: Awards edDescription: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0783241232
Uniform titles:
  • American beauty (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; costume design, Julie Weiss ; production designer, Naomi Shohan ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman ; co-producers, Alan Ball, Stan Wlodkowski.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Best Actor - Oscars (Academy Award) | Best Director - Oscars (Academy Award) | Best Picture - Oscars (Academy Award)
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Popular DVD Popular DVD Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD DVD AMB 118 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002455887
Popular DVD Popular DVD Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD DVD AMB 118 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 31856002317483
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Originally released as motion picture in 1999.

Bonus 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 ; plus additional DVD-ROM features.

Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; costume design, Julie Weiss ; production designer, Naomi Shohan ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman ; co-producers, Alan Ball, Stan Wlodkowski.

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.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD, widescreen format (aspect ratio: 2.35:1).

English language soundtrack (DTS 5.1 surround, Dolby surround or Dolby digital 5.1 surround) ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

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

DVD 118

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