American Beauty (1999)

Director Sam Mendes

Writer Alan Ball

Genre Drama, Romance

Year 1999

Actors Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley

IMDB : 8.4 (846,861 votes)

Description Lester and Carolyn Burnham are, on the outside, a perfect husband and wife in a perfect house in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughter's friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky, who lives with an abusive father.