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Watch: American Beauty 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – After his death sometime in his 43rd year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of his life, during which he had no idea of his imminent passing. He is a husband to real estate agent Carolyn Burnham and father to high school student Jane Burnham. Although Lester and Carolyn once loved each other, they now merely tolerate each other. Typical wallflower Jane also hates both her parents; the three suffer individually in silence in their home life. Jane tries to steer clear of both her parents. Carolyn, relatively new to the real estate business, wants to create the persona of success to further her career, aspiring to the professional life of Buddy Kane, the king of the real estate business in their neighborhood. Lester merely walks mindlessly through life, including at his job in advertising. His company is downsizing, and he, like all the other employees, has to justify his position to the newly hired efficiency expert to keep his job. Things change for Lester when he falls in love at first sight with Jane’s more experienced classmate, Angela Hayes. Both Janie and Angela can see Lester’s sexual infatuation with Angela, who courts such attention from any man as a sign that she is model material, she having once appeared in Seventeen and is a career to which she aspires. Lester’s infatuation with Angela gives him a reenergized view on life, where he openly doesn’t care anymore what anyone thinks about what he does, anyone except Angela. This infatuation coincides with the Fittses moving in next door: homophobic disciplinarian US Marine Colonel Frank Fitts who rules the house with a military fist (that fist being both figurative and literal), his semi-comatose wife Barbara Fitts, and their bright and quietly subversive 18-year-old son Ricky Fitts, who openly abides by his father’s rules while behind the scenes lives by his own quite different perspective. Much like Lester’s infatuation, Ricky immediately becomes infatuated with Jane; he considers girls like Angela as ordinary. The entry of Angela and the Fittses into the Burnhams’ lives ultimately leads to each of the players confronting what is truly in his or her heart..
Plot: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter’s attractive friend.
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Ratings:

	8.4/10 Votes: 1,149,703
	87% | RottenTomatoes
	84/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 10635 Popularity: 31.844 | TMDB

Reviews:

I first saw this film in my teen years. I didn’t understand the plot of the movie back then but found the erotic scenes interesting. I think I was also impressed by Lesters change in attitude back then.
Rewatching it in my early thirties the movie really catches me. The story of every character is catching, because everyone is struggling with different ordinary problems, some of them probably known by every adult.

* Lester is fighting with his midlifecrisis and wants to break the devils-wheel of his boring everyday life. He also hates his job and the responsibility he has to carry because of it.
* His wife Annette is frustrated by her job, because she isn’t as successful as she wants to be. To bring more joy in her life she starts an affair with another (more successful) real estate salesman.
* Their daughter Jane has a lack of self-confidence. She wants to be more like her more attention-getting friend Angela.
* The neighbor Colonel Frank is militant, conservative and wants to give his values to his son. As he thinks his son is gay, he thinks it is his failure because of himself feeling attracted by men.
* The neighbors son Ricky is a survivor. He tries to mimic to be a good son to his dad to stay out of trouble with him. Because he wants the newest technology (TVs, Camcorders, etc.) he is dealing with drugs.
* Angela lies that she is sleeping with a lot of boys just to feel more self-confident when her friends geht jealous. She wants to become a model and tries to avoid to be ordinary in any way.

The film American Beauty to me is a film about purpose. What is your purpose in life? The film teaches that there is such great beauty in the small things in life and that sometimes you need to take a step back to allow yourself to take in the unfiltered beauty in the small things like a plastic bag dancing in the wind, playing with the leaves. The film tells it’s audience that the beauty in the small details is much greater than society’s typical image of beauty. The prominent rose in the film is a symbol of false, surface beauty; the expensive and romantic flower is amongst almost every single shot in the film reminding us that we need to look beyond the surface beauty of an entity and see the beauty within. This message surrounding beauty is empathised with the inclusion of the rose on the films poster and the tagline, ‘look closer’ indicating that to see real beauty one must ‘look closer’, a task that typically requires more thoughtfulness and less immediate facial value judgements that make up the typical image of beauty.

An American Masterpiece
This is by far one of the best, if not THE, movies of the 90’s. “American Beauty” stole my vote immediately as I started watching it. The idea and concept of “American Beauty” is just some ordinary people on an ordinary block with ordinary lives.

Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnam, a middle aged married man who has lost some hope in life. He has a job that is degrading, a wife who refuses to show any type of loving emotion towards him, a daughter who practically hates herself, and is judged constantly as a looser. But all of a sudden, he sees his daughter’s friend, Angela, and something snaps in him to do something with his life. He quits his job and takes, the dreaded by most Americans, a fast food cook job. He starts working out and doing some illegal substances. Even though this sounds like he is ruining his life, it actually helps him and makes him realize how much he loves “the precious moments in his stupid little life.” You have no idea what he is talking about I’m sure, but don’t worry, you will some day. Kevin Spacey was by far the best actor in 1999 and deserved this Oscar 100%.

Annete Benning plays Carol Burnam, Lester’s wife. She is a very fake and unsuccessful real estate agent who cannot get a sale. Her image in life is “in order to be successful, one most project an image of success at all times”. You can tell, she is not happy with her marriage and starts to have an affair with the big boss of the real estate company. Again, seems horrible, but it helps her in the end. Annete was unfortunately robbed of an Oscar for this film.

The supporting cast: Thora Birtch who plays Janie, Lester and Carol’s daughter, is extremely depressed and hates her body and herself. But when she notices a strange boy next door and develops a relationship with him, she realizes how precious life is and starts communicating with her family. Mena Suvari plays Angela, Janie’s best friend, Lester’s crush, and a girl who is clearly insecure despite her attempts at showing her sexy side to every guy in town. Wes Bentley plays Ricky, the next door neighbor boy who looks at something as simple as a bag being tossed in the wind as something beautiful. Some say that this was a very stupid scene, but I disagree. His dialog was perfect and made us look twice at something so simple. He won most of our hearts despite having somewhat of an arrogant attitude. Wes without a doubt got robbed of a nomination for this movie. Chris Cooper plays Ricky’s father, Col. Frank Fits. He is a military Sergent who is very abusive to his wife and son and is an obvious homophobic that turns into an ironic situation in the end. Chris also should’ve been nominated.

The most stunning character actually to me was Allison Janney who played Barbara Fits, Ricky’s mom, and Frank’s wife. She was so beautiful and perfect. Her scene in the front room with Frank and Ricky, everything is so quite, and she says “I’m sorry, what?”. Ricky says “Mom, no one said anything”. When Ricky gets kicked out by Frank after a horrible accusation, Ricky says “Mom, I’m leaving”. Instead of being like the average mom and trying to stop him or say things will get better, she knows this is best and says “OK. Wear a raincoat”. Allison was just amazing and didn’t get enough credit for her role.

If there could have been nominations for every role in this movie, they were well deserved. This is a terrific movie that should be watched by every adult. It’ll make you look again at your life and think. What a great movie.

10/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 15000000
Revenue 356296601
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Sam Mendes
Writer Alan Ball
Actors Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Country United States
Awards Won 5 Oscars. 112 wins & 102 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS, Dolby
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,332 m (Germany)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Super 35 (also 3-perf)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383)