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American Beauty | 1999 | UK Quad
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American Beauty | 1999 | UK Quad

American Beauty is a 1999 film directed by Sam Mendes. It was co-produced by Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks with Alan Ball writing the screenplay. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley and Chris Cooper. The storyline follows Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela. Alan Ball had intended for the story for American Beauty to be a stage play and began writing it in the early 1990s. He was inspired by the media circus surrounding the Amy Fisher trial in 1992. However, he realised the play wouldn’t work on a stage and shelved it but after several years whilst working as a television screenwriter, Alan Ball...