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TI  - American beauty
SN  - 0783241232
AV  - PN1997 .A33  2011 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hollywood, CA
PB  - Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment,  
KW  - Midlife crisis
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Drama.
N1  - Originally released as motion picture in 1999; Special features: American beauty: look closer ... a behind the scenes featurette ; film commentary with director Sam Mendes and writer Alan Ball ; storyboard presentation with commentary by Sam Mendes and director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; cast and crew biographies ; two theatrical trailers ; production notes; Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.
N2  - An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides
       "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when
       he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately 
       uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he 
       quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts
       getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents 
       are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager
       --his daughter's best friend
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