TY - ADVS AU - Mendes,Sam AU - Ball,Alan AU - Spacey,Kevin AU - Bening,Annette ED - Dreamworks Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - American beauty U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2004/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - DreamWorks Home Entertainment KW - Midlife crisis KW - Drama KW - Suburban life N1 - Originally released as motion picture in 1999; Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney N2 - An emotionally and 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 ER -