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American beauty / Dreamworks Pictures ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; directed by Sam Mendes ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks.
Annenberg Circulation Desk DVD PN1997 .A3424 2000
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LIBRA DVD 009 040
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midlife crisis--Drama.
- Midlife crisis.
- Suburban life--Drama.
- Suburban life.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Awards edition ; Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2000]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall; costume design, Julie Weiss; production designer, Naomi Shohan; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury; music, Thomas Newman; co-producers, Alan Ball, Stan Wlodkowski.
- Notes:
- Originally released as motion picture in 1999.
- Bonus 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 ; plus additional DVD-ROM features.
- Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.
- ISBN:
- 0783241232 :
- OCLC:
- 45176850
- Publisher Number:
- 667068538229
- 85382 DreamWorks Home Entertainment
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