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ANNETTE BENING

DreamWorks, 1999

PRINCIPAL CAST Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper
DIRECTOR Sam Mendes
PRODUCERS Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
SCREENWRITER Alan Ball

AMERICAN BEAUTY captures the aridity of the American Dream at century's end with rapier wit and an arresting visual style. The dark satire swept the Academy Awards in 2000, winning five—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Screenplay and Cinematography—and marked auspicious debuts for director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball. Annette Bening's unhinged real estate agent, Carolyn Burnham, is a suburban American classic—a Martha Stewart gone mad. She dances the tango of a dying marriage with Kevin Spacey's Lester, surrounded by a brilliant ensemble cast including Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher and Mena Suvari, the nymph who awakens Lester from his midlife coma.

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