American Beauty

Year

1999

Genre

Drama

Director

Sam Mendes

Cast

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

Plot

Lester and Carolyn Burnham (Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening) appear to be a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighbourhood. However, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression, and finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends, Angela (Mena Suvari). Meanwhile, his daughter Jane (Thora Birch) is developing a friendship with a shy boy named Ricky (Wes Bentley) who lives with a homophobic father.