Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

American beauty / Dreamworks Pictures presents ; a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; written by Alan Ball ; produced by Bruce Cohen & Dan Jinks ; directed by Sam Mendes.

Edition:

Awards ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R for strong sexuality, language, violence, and drug content.

Subjects:

Midlife crisis -- Drama.

Suburban life -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Mendes, Sam.

Ball, Alan, 1957-

Cohen, Bruce, 1961-

Jinks, Dan.

Spacey, Kevin.

Bening, Annette.

Birch, Thora.

Bentley, Wes, 1978-

Suvari, Mena, 1979-

Gallagher, Peter, 1955-

Cooper, Chris, 1951-

Janney, Allison.

Bakula, Scott.

Robards, Sam.

Hall, Conrad.

Anwar, Tariq.

Greenbury, Christopher.

Newman, Thomas, 1955-

Dreamworks Pictures.

Jinks/Cohen Company.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Disc was originally distributed in 2000 by Dreamworks Home Entertainment.

Originally released as motion picture in 1999.

Special 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.

Director of photography, Conrad L. Hall ; editors, Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury ; music, Thomas Newman.

Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards.

DVD ; Region 1, widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs ; DTS digital surround, Dolby 2.0 surround or Dolby Digital 5.1, NTSC.

English language soundtrack; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards: Best actor (Spacey), Best picture, Best director, Best cinematography, Best original screenplay.

ISBN:

0783241232

9780783241234

0783241232

9786316725363 : DVD

6316725361 : DVD

Publisher Number:

85382

Other Number:

809265367

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

687765

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE American