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American beauty [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 85382 | Paramount Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Publication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0783241232
  • 9780783241234
Uniform titles:
  • American beauty (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD AME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000465115

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.

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.

DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC.

English language soundtrack ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.

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