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Analysing "American Beauty" American Beauty is a typical "teen flick" and "Black Comedy", which constitutes many around sex, lust and desire and also problems in family life, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning. The film is about the life of a dysfunctional family of 2 middle-aged parents that find new infatuations for themselves, and their daughter Jane (played by Thora Birch), whom the film is mainly based around. Jane is a 16 year old who is insecure, angry and has very little cares in the world, very much like the stereotypical teenager. Lester (Jane's father) played by Kevin Spacey, is middle-aged and fed up of his normal and none lightened life, indicated at the beginning of the film when he says that "Jerking off in the shower is probably the highlight of his day". He has a dead end job as a magazine publisher and finds everyday goes by as...

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