Lester is a sexually frustrated suburban father made things more miserable when he got infatuated with his daughters friend and now he feels the need to come out of his misery.
June 12, 1977 in Decatur, Alabama, USA
16 June 1972, Seoul, South Korea
19 November 1959, Dayton, Ohio, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
11 March 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 February 1977, Downey, California, USA
4 September 1978, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
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2 March 1971, Tampa, Florida, USA
11 July 1978, Forth Worth, Texas, USA
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
8 April 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 February 1979, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
13 December 1981, USA
1 August 1961, Saratoga, California, USA
6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, USA
16 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA
February 22, 2015
A tightly coiled rage seethes beneath the pretty surface of American Beauty, a wickedly funny black comedy directed by newcomer Sam Mendes.
May 08, 2014
Why, then, did I enjoy it so little? Because of its unrelenting self-importance: American Beauty wants us to know, in every shot at every turn, just how clever and mercilessly cutting it is.
May 08, 2014
Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his life.
February 22, 2015
American Beauty is deeply disturbing, acerbically funny, brilliantly acted, breathtakingly original and highly sophisticated.
January 28, 2014
Alan Ball's script is a terrific piece of material, and Mendes responds directly to its subversive, provocative vision of a curdled American Dream.
February 22, 2015
The writing is acidically amusing without ever trying to conceal the loneliness at the heart, the direction a perfect frame for the characters and the wonderful performances that create them.
February 22, 2015
Kevin Spacey is the greatest actor of his generation, hands down, no contest.
February 22, 2015
This engrossing centrepiece meshes with subplots involving Burnham's dysfunctional family and unbalanced neighbours, in a virtuoso study of isolation, repression and fulfilment. Mendes infuses the lush visuals and lyrical script with dramatic panache.
February 22, 2015
This seriocomic autopsy of middle-class virtue has the capacity to startle and surprise, and a gift for finding grim humor at the heart of tragedy.
February 22, 2015
The film is stunningly poignant, and when first time cinema director Mendes turns his hands to the serious aspects of the disintegration of human souls, the funny lurches to the profound with hardly a flicker of disruption.
February 22, 2015
This is Spacey's best performance since he took home an Oscar for The Usual Suspects.
January 28, 2014
American Beauty approaches a manic, almost cartoonish edge without falling over. Both Spacey and Bening use extraordinary comic timing to bring these very sad, lost characters to life.
