American Beauty
Overview
Suburbia has never looked this miserable. Lester Burnham is a bored ad man whose midlife crisis explodes into an obsession with his daughter's friend, while everyone around him is quietly falling apart too. It's bleak, funny in the worst ways, and features that plastic-bag scene people still argue about. Won Best Picture, and the debate hasn't stopped. Watch it for the filmmaking, not the comfort.
Cast
Kevin Spacey
Annette Bening
Thora Birch
Wes Bentley
Mena Suvari
