American Beauty
(DVD R-rated)
Contributors
Mendes, Sam, film director.
Cohen, Bruce, 1961- film producer.
Jinks, Dan, film producer.
Ball, Alan, 1957- screenwriter.
Spacey, Kevin, actor.
Cohen, Bruce, 1961- film producer.
Jinks, Dan, film producer.
Ball, Alan, 1957- screenwriter.
Spacey, Kevin, actor.
Published
Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2000].
Status
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Published
Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2000].
Format
DVD R-rated
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
667068538229, 883929303779, 6706853822, 032429256362
Notes
General Note
Originally released as motion picture in 1999.
General Note
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.
Restrictions on Access
Educational and home use only.
Creation/Production 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.
Participants/Performers
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.
Description
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.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: R.
System Details
DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen format (aspect ratio: 2.35:1); DTS 5.1 surround, Dolby surround, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Language
English language soundtrack (DTS 5.1 surround, Dolby surround or Dolby digital 5.1 surround); closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Awards
Academy Awards, 2000: Best actor (Kevin Spacey), Best picture, Best director (Sam Mendes), Best cinematography (Conrad L. Hall), Best original screenplay (Alan Ball) ; Golden Globes, 2000: Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Director, Motion Picture (Sam Mendes). Best Screenplay, Motion Picture (Alan Ball)
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mendes, S., Cohen, B., Jinks, D., Ball, A., Spacey, K., Bening, A., Birch, T., Suvari, M., Bentley, W., Gallagher, P., Cooper, C., Janney, A., Bakula, S., Robards, S., Hall, C., Weiss, J., Shohan, N., Anwar, T., Greenbury, C., & Newman, T. (2000). American Beauty (Awards edition.). DreamWorks Home Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sam, Mendes et al.. 2000. American Beauty. Universal City, CA: DreamWorks Home Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sam, Mendes et al.. American Beauty Universal City, CA: DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2000.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Mendes, S., Cohen, B., Jinks, D., Ball, A., Spacey, K., Bening, A. and Birch, T. et al (2000). American beauty. Awards edn. Universal City, CA: DreamWorks Home Entertainment.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mendes, Sam,, et al. American Beauty Awards edition., DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2000.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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