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American Beauty(Movie, 1999)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Genre: Drama
American BeautyRating: 4.0/5 (with 56905,690 votes)
American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari. Annette Bening stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney co-star. Academics have described the film as satirizing how beauty and personal satisfaction are perceived by the American middle class; further analysis has focused on the fil... ()
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Awards & Nominations for American Beauty

Academy Award for Best Picture Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Board of Review Award for Best Film BAFTA Award for Best Film Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Original Score European Film Award for Best Non-European Film

About American Beauty

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: California
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 38 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/20/2000 (World premiere: 09/15/1999)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Belleza americana"
"Amerikan Gözəli"
"Amerikanski prelesti"
"Beauté américaine"
"amerikanikí omorfiá"
"아메리칸 뷰티"
"Belleza americana"
"Frumusete Americana"
"Američka lepota"
"Postamerikanskiy ornament"
"Krasa po-amerykansʹky"

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Other movies with this title: American Beauty (US, 1927), American Beauty (US, 1945)

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