American Beauty

Titolo originale: American Beauty
Regia: Sam Mendes |
Anno: 1999
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: estate agent | adultery | coming out | first time | virgin | cheating | parent child relationship | age difference | midlife crisis | cheerleader | dark comedy | rose | satire | dysfunctional family | suburbia | coming of age | sexual fantasy | dysfunctional marriage | marijuana | loneliness | love affair | biting | exercise | extramarital affair | realtor | voyeurism | quitting a job | neighborhood | retired army man | closeted homosexual | singing in a car | gay theme | existential | teenager | camcorder |
Cast: Kevin Spacey | Annette Bening | Thora Birch | Wes Bentley | Mena Suvari | Peter Gallagher | Allison Janney | Chris Cooper | Scott Bakula | Sam Robards | Barry Del Sherman | Ara Celi | John Cho | Hal Fort Atkinson | Sue Casey | Kent Faulcon | Brenda Wehle | Lisa Cloud | Alison Faulk | Krista Goodsitt | Lily Houtkin | Carolina Lancaster | Mona Leah | Chekesha Van Putten | Emily Zachary | Nanci Anderson | Reshma Gajjar | Stephanie Rizzo | Heather Joy Sher | Chelsea Hertford | Amber Smith | Joel McCrary | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Dennis Anderson | Matthew Kimbrough | Erin Cathryn Strubbe | Bruce Cohen | Elaine Corral Kendall | James Hunter | Spencer Kayden | Tom Miller |

Lester e Carolyn Burnham appaiono dall'esterno una coppia perfetta, con una casa perfetta e un vicinato perfetto. In realtà Lester è un uomo, insoddisfatto della sua vita familiare e professionale, che sta cadendo in una sempre più profonda disperazione, quando improvvisamente conosce Angela, un'amica di sua figlia e se ne infatua. Nel frattempo Jane, la figlia di Lester ha conosciuto il loro timido e misterioso vicino di casa Ricky che vive oppresso da una figura paterna ossessiva.

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At the beginning of the movie, when Lester is in the shower, you can see a reflection/silhouette on [...] D
The dancing 'Spartanettes' have a capital 'S' on their uniforms when it should be 'R' for 'Rockwell' [...] D
When Lester calls Angela for the first time using Jane's diary, her number starts with 555. But when [...] D
When Jane exits Angela's car after the game, Ricky Fitts stands up from a metal garden chair to turn [...] D
The plastic bag video was supposedly filmed with a hand-held camera but there is no hand shake. Howe [...] D
When Lester first sees Colonel Fitts standing outside the closed garage in the rain, he is quite clo [...] D
In the final sequence when Lester's life flashes before his eyes, there is a close-up of the wing of [...] D
The white decorative pillow Lester picks up and throws off Carolyn's precious blue and white striped [...] D
When Carolyn (with a squeegee) is outside cleaning the sliding glass patio doors opening out onto th [...] D
When the funeral procession turns the corner, you can easily count how many cars there are: the hear [...] D
When Angela and Jane are outside the school talking to Ricky, there is a shot in which the filter of [...] D
When Ricky and his parents are looking toward the television, three framed pictures are visible on t [...] D
When Angela meets Lester for the second time (by the refrigerator) her head is touching the corner o [...] D
When Ricky begins recording Jane, the camera makes the sound of ejecting the tape. D
During Lester's weight training, he's doing a close-grip bench press. This is an "isolation" exercis [...] D
When Jane and Angela are outside talking to Ricky at school, Angela's cigarette keeps growing and sh [...] D
At the end of the movie, Lester talks about the maple trees lining the streets in the neighborhood w [...] D
When Jane is being filmed and talking about having her father killed (jokingly), she is smoking pot [...] D
After Lester has been shot, Jane and Ricky come downstairs to the kitchen to investigate. In the fir [...] D
In the scenes where the family has dinner in the dining room, there is no rug on the floor. However, [...] D
Carolyn is pulled to the side of the road in the Mercedes SUV in heavy rain, the windshield wipers a [...] D
Lester is shot in the back of his head, yet when Ricky and Jane walk in, Lester's face has no exit w [...] D
When Lester is driving in his car after leaving his advertising job, the trailing motorcycle cop esc [...] D
A buffet/sideboard on the wall behind Carolyn's chair in several wide shots of the Burnham's dining [...] D
The angle at which the blood flies when Lester is shot is too low to be from his head. Earlier, the [...] D
When Lester wants to dial up Angela while his daughter is in the shower, you can hear that the first [...] D
At 1:29:11, Frank's t-shirt has a large blob of Lester's blood on right shoulder with sprinkles on l [...] D
When Colonel Fitts breaks into Ricky's room in a rage and punches him, the blood is already on Ricky [...] D
When Lester tries to instigate sex with Carolyn, during the argument about Lester nearly spilling be [...] D
When Ricky opens his father's glass case to remove the Nazi plate, there is no glass in the door. D
The wooden armchair in front of the window at Lester's end of the dining room table which appears in [...] D
Carolyn is wearing her gardening gloves in the garage as she lectures Lester about smoking and "sett [...] D
When Ricky gets the frozen urine sample out of the freezer, it's obviously half a cup. When he is re [...] D
When the rose petals begin falling from Angela's naked body on the Burnhams' bedroom ceiling onto Le [...] D
When Carolyn drives up to her home in the final scene, the rain sounds like it has an echo, as if it [...] D
When Ricky Fitts walks from the house to Colonel Fitts washing his SUV, the garden hose is relativel [...] D
After closing the blinds/curtain in the "for sale" house, the chain is hanging on Carolyn's right sh [...] D
When Lester blackmails Brad, Brad's fingers alternate between interlocked and overlapped. D
During the basketball game, a player on the home team (#11) commits a traveling violation by taking [...] D
Lester driving to the song "American Woman" appears to be making a continuous right turn by the tilt [...] D
When Carolyn is scrubbing the kitchen counter preparing for her open house, the kitchen sink and win [...] D
When Carolyn opens the garage door to Lester working out, she opens it with her hand from the outsid [...] D
In early scenes, Lester rides to work in a carpool arrangement with his wife and his daughter. Reinf [...] D
The street where the Burnhams and Fittses live constantly changes geometry throughout the movie. In [...] D
While Carolyn is driving home from shooting practice, she turns the wheel quite sharply several time [...] D
When Jane agrees to walk with Ricky, she has less eyeliner. In Ricky takes her to Frank's room, the [...] D
The film starts with an aerial shot looking down on the town showing all the trees being bare, so it [...] D
At 1:11:05 when angry Frank hits Ricky, the camera loses its connection to the television, but at 1: [...] D
When Lester is driving his Toyota Camry while smoking pot, it can clearly be seen that there is a st [...] D
After Ricky Fitts's father has beaten him up for opening the cabinet containing his Nazi plate, he h [...] D
Lester hears Carolyn order her food at Smiley's, but in the next scene, she drives up to the large m [...] D
When Lester is singing "American Woman" in his car, buildings from Burbank, California, (including t [...] D
At 1:11:04, when Frank punches Ricky, Ricky gets a tear under his left eye. That is highly unlikely [...] D
Ricky says that his father has only one Nazi item. One of the items on the wall is a German luger, s [...] D
After Carolyn and Buddy order takeout in Mr. Smiley's drive-thru (Lester hears them ordering inside [...] D
The finger pulling the trigger at the end is bare but in the next scene the killer is wearing plasti [...] D
The "Nazi" plate is an obvious fake. It looks like the art department applied a swastika decal from [...] D
In the aerial/helicopter shots of Robin Hood Trail at the beginning and end of the film, the large t [...] D
When Ricky is filming Jane while she strips for him, the light in his room is on, and it should have [...] D
When Ricky and Jane are looking at the Nazi plate, there is a very large cameraman filming over June [...] D
When Lester pulls into Mr. Smiley's for the first time, the logo for Green Burrito is visible in the [...] D
The dining room table is set with six crystal/glass candle holders with white candles when Jane cros [...] D
At the beginning of the film after Jane gets into the car, Carolyn is waiting by the driver's seat w [...] D
At 22:19, a new light source appears mid-scene to illuminate Jane's face. D
In the opening sequence of the film, in the overhead shot of the Burnhams' master bedroom, Lester is [...] D
Ricky takes out the cup of urine and explains to Lester that he needs clean urine to pass a drug tes [...] D
The level of Lester's carrot juice in the blender cup from which he drinks is half full at the begin [...] D
In the dinner scene where Lester throws the bowl of asparagus against the wall, the picture frame ha [...] D
After he is beaten by his father for looking at the Nazi plate, Ricky Fitts looks in the mirror to e [...] D
When Carolyn slaps Jane in the face, Carolyn can be seen yelling at Jane, from behind, even though t [...] D
When Lester and Carolyn are at the party and walking up to talk to Buddy, Lester can be seen at the [...] D
When Lester hears that Angela is staying over for the night, he spills beer on the sink. In the next [...] D
In Jane's phone book, she has Lester's work phone number as 555-1251; he gives it as 555-0199, but h [...] D
After Lester removes Angela's pants, he moves his hands along her body and she is wearing her pants [...] D
We see the reflection of the three joggers in the rear window of the Fitts' car because of the angle [...] D
During the fight that Lester and Carolyn have after he quits his job, Lester's beer bottle moves as [...] D
Toward the end of Ricky's and Jane's first kiss in his bedroom, the moving shadow of a crew member o [...] D
Ricky Fitts walks from the house to Colonel Fitts, who is washing his car, into a giant, rectangular [...] D
Lester and Carolyn are already home in bed (cut from Lester's rose petal fantasy) when Angela pulls [...] D
When Ricky Fitts is being filmed by Jane from the front, the waistband of his shorts is clearly visi [...] D
The covers on Carolyn's side of the bed are down and then up when she threatens to divorce Lester. D
Carolyn Burnham's business phone number for Burnham Realty is listed as 555-0195 on her yard sign, b [...] D
Before Lester wakes up at the beginning of the movie, his slippers are pointing towards the bed and [...] D