02903cgm a2200445 4500 262182286 TxAuBib 20160512120000.0 001016s2000||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9780783241234 $26.99 0783241232 $26.99 667068538229 85382 DreamWorks Home Entertainment TxAuBib eng eng American beauty [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; directed by Sam Mendes ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks. Awards ed. ; Widescreen. Universal City, Calif : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2000. 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet. Originally released as motion picture in 1999. 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. To access the DVD-ROM features, you must have a computer capable of playing DVD movies, running Microsoft Windows 95 or higher. The DVD-ROM features will not work on a Macintosh. 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. Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards. 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. Rated R. DVD format. Home use only. 20160512. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay. Films for the hearing impaired. Mendes, Sam. Spacey, Kevin. Bening, Annette. Birch, Thora. Suvari, Mena, 1979- Bentley, Wes, 1978- Cooper, Chris, 1951- Dreamworks Pictures.