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Title American beauty / Dreamworks Pictures ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; directed by Sam Mendes.

Publication Info. Hollywood, CA : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, [2011]

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .A3384 2011    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC.
Cast 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 ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.
Note Originally released as motion picture in 1999.
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.
Note 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.
Awards Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.
Language English language soundtrack ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Subject Midlife crisis -- Drama.
Midlife crisis.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Suburban life -- Drama.
Suburban life.
Genre/Form Fiction films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Mendes, Sam.
Ball, Alan, 1957-
Cohen, Bruce, 1961-
Jinks, Dan.
Spacey, Kevin.
Bening, Annette.
Birch, Thora.
Bentley, Wes, 1978-
Suvari, Mena, 1979-
Gallagher, Peter, 1955-
Cooper, Chris, 1951-
Janney, Allison.
Bakula, Scott.
Robards, Sam.
Hall, Conrad.
Anwar, Tariq.
Greenbury, Christopher.
Newman, Thomas, 1955-
DreamWorks Pictures (1994-2006)
Jinks/Cohen Company.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title American beauty (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99261670
ISBN 0783241232
9780783241234
Standard No. 667068538229
Music No. 85382 Paramount Home Entertainment