02945cgm a2200481 4500 288254472 TxAuBib 20091209120000.0 080916s2000||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9780783241234 0783241232 85382 DreamWorks Home Entertainment OCO OCO FAU ZCU EMU GZM TxAuBib eng eng American beauty (Motion picture). American beauty [DVD] / Dreamworks Pictures presents ; directed by Sam Mendes ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production. Awards ed. Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2000. 1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in. Widescreen format (aspect ratio: 2.35:1). 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. 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. MPAA rating: R. DVD. 20080916. English language soundtrack (DTS 5.1 surround, Dolby surround or Dolby digital 5.1 surround) ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired. Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay. Mendes, Sam. Ball, Alan, 1957- Cohen, Bruce. Jinks, Dan. Spacey, Kevin. Bening, Annette. Birch, Thora. Suvari, Mena, 1979- Bentley, Wes, 1978- Cooper, Chris, 1951- Dreamworks Pictures. DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm).